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jinn

noun

variants or jinns also djinn or djinns

plural of jinni

as in genies

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Recent Examples of jinn But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 18 June 2026 In the centuries-old Cape Town Muslim community of my childhood, none of this was particularly unusual; older people spoke freely about ghosts or jinn, counseling us to take precautions of prayers, salt, incense, to limit our interaction with them. — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025 By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Like genies, the sky's the limit for making your holiday wishes come true.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2026
One Aladdin Two Lamps contains spectacular genies of its own, particularly when the author follows her intuition.

— Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026

Definition of genies

Noun

To be clear, there have been agave spirits that have been made with mole before.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 July 2026
To preserve the fruit, Elio Carta’s grandmother, Anna Maria Perra, placed the berries in spirits already produced by the family, laying the foundation for what became the house’s historic myrtle recipe.

— Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of spirits

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The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
The earliest depictions of slavery were already crawling with the terrible proceedings the Gothic tends to depict, from bloody whippings to family curses to the wrathful wraiths of the slain enslaved.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of wraiths

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While humanity knows about superheroes like Spider-Man (hence, the events of the previous games), mutants are still largely living in the shadows.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Lancelot, noticeably weary, impassive, and preoccupied atop an equally weary black horse, follows the sorcerer, while Merlin leads him up the path into the realm of shadows, out of the frame to the left.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

Definition of shadows

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Such a designation, evidently, would save agents from wasting time chasing phantoms.

— Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
Just in time for Halloween, the sonic phantoms that have long plagued the ladies of The View have seemingly possessed inanimate objects over on the Live With Kelly and Mark set.

— Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025

Definition of phantoms

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See-through specters haunt the backstage area of the Muppet theater, a Muppet News report warns of man-eating furniture, and Kermit turns the tables on Price during a long talk about acting by sprouting fangs and biting the horror icon’s neck.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 June 2026
African diasporic people’s contentious history with these formations of motherhood create specters of separation as reproductive injustice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026

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