genie

Example Sentences

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“We may not be able to put this genie back into the bottle,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

"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

“You can’t put the genie back in the bottle now,” Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, told Slate.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2025

And that’s because it’s essentially a meta-hack, the L.A. life-hack equivalent of using a last wish to ask the lamp genie for three more wishes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

“Awww, man,” I said to myself, “I wish I had a magic lamp so I could have die genie make me be where those shoes are and they could be where I am!”

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis