genie

Example Sentences

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“The genie is out of the bottle given that the longstanding threat of Iran effectively closing the strait has now materialized.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

A typical plot could have a down-on-his-luck young man meeting a friendly genie or a couple from different classes defying all odds and melodrama to marry.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

“So just like that, the proverbial genie is out of the bottle and it’s on videotape that I’m going to UCLA,” Easley would recall many years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

The genie of legal sports betting is never going back into its bottle.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

If I could have had one wish, right then, a genie ready for an order, I would have asked that the rain fall forever.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na