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  • noun Plural form of genie.

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Examples

  • Locals say jinn — genies, that is — fade in and out above the pit.

    Archive 2006-12-01 JDsg 2006

  • Locals say jinn — genies, that is — fade in and out above the pit.

    Born of Fire JDsg 2006

  • Both environments also offer "genies," an Alpha Five term for wizards that automate many manual functions.

    SearchOracle: Oracle news and trends Contributor(editor@searchoracle.co Frank Ohlhorst 2010

  • Both environments also offer "genies," an Alpha Five term for wizards that automate many manual functions.

    SearchOracle: Oracle news and trends Contributor(editor@searchoracle.co Frank Ohlhorst 2010

  • Both environments also offer "genies," an Alpha Five term for wizards that automate many manual functions.

    SearchOracle: Oracle news and trends Contributor(editor@searchoracle.co Frank Ohlhorst 2010

  • "The non-supernatural type of pukau is not at all too different from a street magician, a salesman, a politician, or an entertainment superstar, but the supernatural version appears to 'invoke' other worldly beings such as genies and spirits," reveals Naguib on how the knowledge is picked up and passed on.

    unknown title 2009

  • His own planned Progress was also peopled by "genies" of each age resembling the ethereal personifications of plants and elements so effectively ridiculed in "The

    Introduction 2006

  • It is this situation that led to the belief in communications from the gods in ancient times, as well as the belief in lesser sorts of supernatural communicators: talking spirits and genies, muses who dictated poetry to the “inspired” poet, sacred rocks, trees, and other objects that brought word “from the other side.”

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Now that the cable and internet genies are out of their bottles, there will never be another Walter Cronkite.

    Jack Bog's Blog: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • Now that the cable and internet genies are out of their bottles, there will never be another Walter Cronkite.

    Walter and me (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

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