genie
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"I don't know how they're going to put the genie back in the bottle," Lee told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 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
College sports leaders are trying to squeeze the genie back into the bottle—witness the president’s new executive order commanding transfer and eligibility limits, among other items—but it’s hard to see the landscape changing soon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 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
Merriweather’s wands continued their dance through the air, conjuring up her next spell...only, the genie didn’t give her the time.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The entire industry is an illusion: actors, dialogue, costumes, sets, editing, even the magic of performers appearing on small screens with a snap, like genies summoned to amuse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
For centuries there have been stories that it harboured jinns, or genies.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2021
According to Salman Rushdie’s new novel, most of what we know about genies is wrong, which makes me worry that I may have spent too much time watching Barbara Eden.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2015
The computer has atomized, as Mr. Rose likes to say, and its functions can be distributed about our households like an army of miniature genies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2014
He was also very wrong about there not being anything like magic powers or genies or angels.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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