How to Use genie in a Sentence
genie
noun
- He rubbed the magic lamp to summon the genie.
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The Supreme Court did, which is why the genie is out of the bottle.
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Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas News,
1 July 2021
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Once the genie is out of the bottle there’s no putting it back.
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Dp Opinion,
The Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2024
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To us -- is this -- is the genie already out of the bottle?
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Fox News,
5 Aug. 2018
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But there seems to be no putting this genie back in the bottle.
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Ann Killion,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Aug. 2021
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On the left is a pot, as bulbous as a genie and as big as an igloo.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2019
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But news of Hawaii was out, like a genie from a bottle.
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New York Times,
17 May 2021
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Once the genie is out of the bottle, there is no turning back.
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Bruce Grant,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2024
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To become a prince, to be rescued from drowning, and to free the genie; 16.
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Ariel Nagi,
Seventeen,
27 Feb. 2020
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To become a prince, to be rescued from drowning, and to free the genie; 11.
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Danielle Fox,
Seventeen,
16 July 2018
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To become a prince, to be rescued from drowning, and to free the genie; 21.
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Ariel Nagi,
Seventeen,
2 Sep. 2020
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Once rolled out to thousands of endpoints, the genie is then out of the bottle.
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Bob Davis,
Forbes,
12 July 2022
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Daniel, one of the genies, once had a couple ask for their suite to be filled with flowers.
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Brandon Presser,
sacbee,
3 Feb. 2018
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But is the genie out of the bottle for good in terms of transfers and the focus on winning?
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Aug. 2022
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Christmas is the most magical time of year — so why not add a genie to the mix?
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EW.com,
1 Nov. 2023
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Whether VCs choose to acknowledge them or turn a blind eye, the genie’s out of the bottle.
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Polina Marinova,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2017
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The lamp post seemed to suck it out of me, like a genie returning to its bottle.
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Longreads,
15 June 2018
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Inflation is the genie that cannot be stuffed back in the bottle.
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James Berman,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2021
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Because once the genie is out of the bottle, there's no going back.
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Polina Marinova,
Fortune,
20 Aug. 2019
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Because once the genie is out of the bottle, there’s no going back.
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Polina Marinova,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2019
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Aladdin’s mother is the one who first rubs the lamp and releases the genie.
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National Geographic,
23 May 2019
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There is no button to press, no magic spell to cast, no genie’s lamp to rub.
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Jack Butler,
National Review,
2 Mar. 2021
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Shaquille O'Neal did once play an ancient genie in the 1996 movie, Kazaam.
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Duane Rankin,
The Arizona Republic,
14 May 2021
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Idris Elba plays a genie — or, as the movie styles it, a djinn — trapped inside a bottle, of course.
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Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
24 Aug. 2022
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In the description there were two genies originally -- the Genie of the Lamp and the Genie of the Ring.
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Cathy Applefeld Olson,
Billboard,
12 June 2017
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The winner for a reason — this baby is damn near close to a skin-care genie in a bottle.
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Macaela MacKenzie,
Allure,
18 Aug. 2017
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No doubt, Bud Light hopes consumers won’t want to put this genie back in its bottle.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2024
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In North America, Libra might not launch but the genie is out of the bottle.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
11 Dec. 2019
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But there’s a lot more the city, state and feds can do to clear the air today and stop more genies from exiting tomorrow.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2024
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To reiterate: the inflation genie has been put back into the bottle as inflation is now effectively at the Fed’s 2% goal.
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Robert Barone,
Forbes,
13 Sep. 2024
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