genie

Example Sentences

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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.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

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.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

The genie of legal sports betting is never going back into its bottle.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

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

Suddenly I felt as if a genie had clapped his hands and poof! my “ifs” had vanished.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz