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genie

noun as in mythical being

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"I don't know how you put the genie back in the bottle but the issue is among us and we can't row back," she says.

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We stopped by a wishing well, where a worker handed me a token to throw down to an animated genie who promised to grant my desires.

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The Epstein genie is out of the bottle.

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On Monday, the judge said: "There is nothing the juror can say at this point that can put the genie back in the bottle and repair his credibility."

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At this point, there are so many potential sources of bird to human or mammal to human transmission, the H5N1 genie is out of the bottle.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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