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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jinn
Noun
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One Aladdin Two Lamps contains spectacular genies of its own, particularly when the author follows her intuition.
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He and Ka-young are reunited, both as genies.
Noun
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Koval Distillery, Chicago’s first legal post-Prohibition distillery, produces spirits as artful as its bottle designs and Vin312 Winery has grown from its owner’s garage into a full-fledged tasting room.
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The release continues Tamworth’s tradition of creating spirits inspired by the natural world around its rural New Hampshire home.
Noun
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Praying all the angels watch over his family during this difficult time.
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So a crew of angels and one unruly human are on a mission to rescue every Black person and bring them to heaven.
Noun
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Cats make wonderful friends and, for the witchy folks among us, maybe even familiars.
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The cast also includes franchise familiars Courteney Cox, Scott Foley, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown.
Noun
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The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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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.
Noun
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Dark figures were darting through the shadows—Germans were carrying sacks and pillows to their building.
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Reflections, shadows and motion blur can all reduce detection confidence.
Noun
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Such a designation, evidently, would save agents from wasting time chasing phantoms.
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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.
Noun
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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.
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African diasporic people’s contentious history with these formations of motherhood create specters of separation as reproductive injustice.
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“Jinn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jinn. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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