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Recent Examples of demigod
The naga, a Sanskrit word for snake or serpent, is an anthropomorphic demigod of sorts that appears in Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cultures.
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Judy Berman, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
This is, after all, Broadway, where glossy demigods of the left are loved.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Percy Jackson and the Olympians introduces a new generation of demigods
Season 2 recently wrapped filming in Vancouver.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Fortunately for Percy there is Camp Half-Blood—a place where demigods like himself can learn to harness their powers and use them for good.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2024
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Judy Berman, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
This is, after all, Broadway, where glossy demigods of the left are loved.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Percy Jackson and the Olympians introduces a new generation of demigods
Season 2 recently wrapped filming in Vancouver.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Fortunately for Percy there is Camp Half-Blood—a place where demigods like himself can learn to harness their powers and use them for good.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demigod
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The creatures are usually found hanging from phones or handbags—tiny demons haunting our accessories—or clutched as a kind of pet.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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In a world of student loans and ever-increasing housing costs, the notion of devoting all of your time to obsessing over the meaning of nineteenth-century poetry does indeed feel like more of a fantasy than witchcraft or demons.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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Ali scored 11 wins over seven different Hall of Famers, and three of Ali’s victims — Archie Moore, Joe Frazier and George Foreman — are boxing immortals.—
Anthony Stitt,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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MacLeod inevitably winds up facing off against the Kurgan (Clancy Brown), a sadistic and otherwise nameless warrior who has been hunting other immortals for centuries.—
Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Jacobs-Jenkins cannot help noting that among that generation of Bible-quoting civil rights worthies are enough sins of the father to burden a host of sons.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
18 Mar. 2025
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Martin Luther King, Senator J. William Fulbright, and California Gov. Pat Brown all said so and who would know better than these worthies?—
Walter E Block,
Orange County Register,
13 Feb. 2025
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Jatin also extends this vision in other ventures, such as his work as an angel investor in developer tool companies, giving him broader visibility into evolving market trends and the demands of software teams — as well as how those two might intersect.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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In the case of angel investing, companies often need additional funding.—
Stephanie Dhue,
CNBC,
22 Aug. 2025
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Alterman used his cultural eminence to exhort the Israeli government to hold on to the territories taken in the war.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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The eminence whom the film casts as the prime mover of benevolent governance is Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican (the breed wasn’t uncommon then) who was the state’s governor from 1959 to 1973.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Oasis is instigating joy on reunion tour What Oasis has brought with this tour, perhaps inadvertently, is a communal spirit.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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This book’s rightful home is in the waiting room of a child psychologist’s office, where it should be presented in the same spirit with which Dum-Dums are left in a dentist’s reception area.—
Sloane Crosley,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Soldiers have been largely stationed in downtown areas, such as monuments on the National Mall and transit stations.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
21 Aug. 2025
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Crown Hill Cemetery Walking Tours With 25 miles of roads and more than 225,000 tombstones and monuments, this is an unconventional outdoor museum.—
Samanta Habashy,
IndyStar,
21 Aug. 2025
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Aeacus, a judge of the dead, and Thanatos, winged daemon of death, are chthonic.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The Rose Field begins where the second book, The Secret Commonwealth leaves off: Lyra alone in a city full of daemons, or physical projections of a person's soul, looking for Pantalaimon as her mentor, Malcolm Polstead, searches for her.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Demigod.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demigod. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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