incubus
Example Sentences
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It’s a tough pangram, and the answer list had “incubi,” “nubbin,” “bluebell,” “leucine” and “nucleic.”
From New York Times
Let’s pause here briefly to note that Immanuel is likely referencing incubi and succubi in her sermons.
From The Guardian
All so they can keep expanding, squatting over lives like feudal incubi.
From The Guardian
The woman — girl, really — was physically tiny, not to mention inappropriately dressed for the task of extracting this colossal incubus, this 10-ton Minotaur, from the fourth floor.
From New York Times
For decades, poorly justified scientific fears of future warming have hovered as an incubus over U.S. energy development.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
