genie
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These risks can be managed, but the time to prepare is now—before the genie leaves the bottle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"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
“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
"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.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
But then, the genie turned its eyes downward with an almost respectful look.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
For centuries there have been stories that it harboured jinns, or genies.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2021
Great stylists, like Amis, reinvigorate our perception of the physical world by defamiliarizing it, describing, for example, the steam that rises from the grates in New York City sidewalks as “meat-eating genies of subway breath.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
All other genies wish they looked as magical as Houston Texans star Hopkins did this Halloween, fully committing to this mystical ensemble with blue body paint and lavish jewelry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
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
I wished for genies to be true, and for me to find one someday, and for it to come back in time and make all the Kellys and Jennifers stay home sick today.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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