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daemon

[dee-muhn] / ˈdi mən /






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“I’d love to have a daemon that can blow dry my hair for me,” she said.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Dan Kois: What was that time in your life like, when, as it were, your daemon started to settle?

From Slate Dec. 29, 2020

The BBC, by contrast, is seeing the epic drama through from the opening glass of tokay to the concluding moment, when Lyra's daemon mutates into a pine marten.

From BBC Nov. 9, 2020

She longed to touch that fur, to rub her cheeks against it, but of course she never did; for it was the grossest breach of etiquette imaginable to touch another person’s daemon.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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