genie
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“The genie risks coming out of the bottle,” said Wolf-Christian Paes, an associate fellow at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“The AI genie is out of the bottle,” Tengler wrote in a Monday note, highlighting that AI adoption is occurring across diverse industries outside of tech and leading to productivity improvements.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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
A typical plot could have a down-on-his-luck young man meeting a friendly genie or a couple from different classes defying all odds and melodrama to marry.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Like a genie swirling out of a bottle—like a cloud of gas—I was drifting upward out of my own body.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
In conventional, old-fashioned stories about wish-granting genies, the number of wishes is limited to three, the better to deliver a solid punchline or useful lesson.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
For centuries there have been stories that it harboured jinns, or genies.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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
He was also very wrong about there not being anything like magic powers or genies or angels.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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