variants also genii
as in demons
in stories a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it He rubbed the magic lamp to summon the genie.
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Recent Examples of genies One Aladdin Two Lamps contains spectacular genies of its own, particularly when the author follows her intuition. —
Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 He and Ka-young are reunited, both as genies. —Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 He and Ka-young are reunited, both as genies. —Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
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Gregg had those demons inside his amazingly creative brain.— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
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Balor excised his own demons, while Mysterio is still haunted.— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
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Not in terms of the scale of its sets—we’ll leave that to the giant staircase in The Queen of Versailles, or whatever is going on with the flying vampires of The Lost Boys—but in terms of the most tropes crammed into one two-act stretch.— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
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The network has given a series order to Eternally Yours, a show about a family of vampires.— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
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Created by a number of its stars, Ghosts originated on the BBC in 2019, following a group of ghouls from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026
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Now working as a stocker, Ash accidentally unleashes undead ghouls after reading from the Necronomicon, forcing him to take up his chainsaw yet again to save humanity from the Deadites.— Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
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The original is set in an Australian rainforest populated by fairies, one of whom accidentally shrinks a logger to fairy size.— Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026
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Woodland fairies carrying giant daffodils or wearing hats covered in mushrooms.— Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
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Always fact check those ghosts.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
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His boldest innovation is to invoke not past glories but past disasters, summoning the ghosts of the United States’ catastrophic interventions in Iraq.— Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
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Other propaganda compared Native people to buffalo, cats, dogs, and devils.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
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There are sounds and shadows in the forest; the Devil, or devils, may be walking the earth.— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
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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, Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
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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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The company behind that trio of elves, some of the most iconic mascots in pop culture, is the same corporation that put breakfast on the table in the first place.— Heather Bushman, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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The puckish figure draws heavily on Nordic fairy tales, including stories of elves.— Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 24 Mar. 2026
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