jinni

variants or jinn also djinni or djinn

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Recent Examples of jinni The jinni has kept the woman locked in a glass chest, deep in the sea, but that hasn’t stopped her from sleeping with ninety-eight other men. Yasmine Al-Sayyad, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 Traditionally, jinn aren't seen as good or evil, and that moral ambiguity carries over to the series. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 June 2019 Next to me was Said Suleiman Mohammed, herbalist and jinni hunter. Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016 Although they are believed to exist in an endless variety of manifestations, negative and positive, jinn are most commonly thought to invade the homes and bodies of humans to cause distress. Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016
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Noun
  • In other words, some genies don’t go back in their bottles.
    Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • More than six decades after humanity first harnessed the destructive power of nuclear reactions, the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons was charting a path for the world to put the genie back in the bottle.
    Nina Tannenwald, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
Noun
  • In the movie, a well meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Reeves) meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Ansari) and a wealthy capitalist (Rogen).
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The new bar follows the transformation of an angel into a demon (inspired by Gokan's life and professional journey from Angel’s Share in New York to his bars in Asia and now Europe).
    Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Discovery, two of the bigger owners of these cable-network wraiths, haven’t had much to show for keeping them up and running.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Human puppets swayed over a Pont like wraiths of those who had been staked there. 🎾 Follow Sports Dashing through it all was the torchbearer, his identity unknown.
    Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024

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“Jinni.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jinni. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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