daemon
Example Sentences
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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
In this episode, you see the tie between her relationship with her daemon and her relationship with the Spectres.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020
At the same event, actor Scott said he and Waller-Bridge were together once more, with the UK actress voicing the Irishman's daemon.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2020
Daemons might touch each other, of course, or fight; but the prohibition against human-daemon contact went so deep that even in battle no warrior would touch an enemy’s daemon.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
