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demon

[dee-muhn] / ˈdi mən /


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Durango’s Quinn Simmons continues to race like a mustached demon, and it’s a little baffling his Lidl-Trek team isn’t more committed to setting him loose to get the stage win he’s clearly eager to take.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

When the thing dies, the worms fall away to reveal that it wasn’t always a demon, but a boar god felled by a dark force.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

But to put the healthcare demon in context: According to federal government data, average annual healthcare costs for those over 65 are currently less than $8,000 a year per person.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

The Los Alamos team's quantum "demon" uses information about a quantum system's state and measurement results to produce similarly unusual behavior, effectively reversing the system's natural arrow of time.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

In the myths that Ali Shekari told me, they are the tragic result of a demon king who wanted to eat brains.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Bowling an immaculate line and using the demons in the pitch, Archer unnerved Devon Conway with a blow to the helmet and, four balls later, had the left-hander fend to second slip.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

But when we’re just focused on Early, hoping to outrun Maddie’s demons in manic aerobics sessions of deliriously complex choreography, the movie feels like a spell.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

As Ms. Fletcher observes, such images suggest that guns were no longer perceived as “the weapon of demons, but of angels.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Vance has also begun talking about belief in demons, which, in America at least, is more of an evangelical fixation than a Catholic one.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

The room was packed with demons, and she thought she saw the slightest shimmer of ghosts in the back, all hanging on Ashmodai’s every word.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny




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