demigod
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Dwayne Johnson reprises his role as demigod Maui, while the titular heroine will be played by newcomer Catherine Laga’aia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Before he was a TV host or culinary demigod, Anthony Bourdain was a writer: sharp-tongued, sensual, and totally unafraid to follow a story wherever it led.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025
It’s a question that the demigod Maui tunefully poses to the titular princess in “Moana 2.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
"But if Maradona was a demigod, Kvaratskhelia is the Pope. He has a totally different attitude, a totally different personality."
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
With a millisecond to spare, he’d summoned the winds and avoided becoming a floating patch of demigod grease on the surface of the Adriatic.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The NBA’s very best teams tend to be led by generational superstars who have been anointed as basketball demigods since they first laced up their sneakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
"The difference is wrestlers think that they’re demigods, but they’re not. I know that because I was one of them," he said with a laugh.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
In place of demigods and antiheroes, women were his preferred orbit.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Rather than play in the McCaw Hall pit, the musicians will be situated onstage, right in the midst of Wagner’s cosmos of “flawed gods, aspiring demigods and power-mad dwarves,” as Staufenbiel puts it.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
Anybody who robbed innocent demigods with a giant turtle deserved a few nasty curses.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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