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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaitan
Noun
  • On the line: A trip to the conference final where Washington and Carolina will have a chance to exorcize some demons.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • The Knicks then exorcised another demon — awful performances coming out of the halftime break.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Precious few bands can fill a stadium 52 years into their career — let alone play to an audience heavily populated by parents and their children, both generations sporting red devil horn headbands and cheering for 77-year-old singer Brian Johnson and white-haired guitar icon Angus Young, 70.
    Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Fire crackling in Burt’s (Christopher Walken) dining room, framing his face like a devil.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In the epic fifth and final season, Joe Goldberg returns to New York to enjoy his happily ever after… until his perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Nearly 60 years ago, a family of ghouls moved into 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
    John Russell, People.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Other than a bartender and the dead girl in the corner — a mannequin, dressed like a ghoul, in a long white gown and pale make-up.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Shaitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaitan. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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