daimon

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Noun
  • The first one features a six-foot tall bronze cast angel whose wings enfold around a granite bench; the sculpture was intended to offer the comfort of an angel’s embrace for visitors who take a seat there.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • The respected 13th-century Spanish rabbi Nachmanides (Ramban) chastises Lot for the atrocity of offering his daughters in place of the angels.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Like genies, the sky's the limit for making your holiday wishes come true.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2026
  • Facing the Mexican press post-match, manager Aguirre was well aware of his role of genie.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Pilots can see bad weather lurking in the distance hours before takeoff, glowing like a wraith on their digital maps.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Cats make wonderful friends and, for the witchy folks among us, maybe even familiars.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The cast also includes franchise familiars Courteney Cox, Scott Foley, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If American music in 1976 represented a collective, inquisitive, inventive American spirit of discovery, the semiquincentennial in the age of social media has become more about the individual identity.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The spirit of a '90s summer vacation is alive and well in tropics-print caftans like this fresh-off-the-runway one from SHAN's SS27 Collection.
    Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • That’s the £312 million phantom.
    Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Such a designation, evidently, would save agents from wasting time chasing phantoms.
    Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But adding capacity also raises the specter of a potential supply glut down the road if demand cools off.
    Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Shaky peace talks to formally end the Iran war means the specter of inflation also still remains, according to analysts.
    DJ Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter.
    The Week UK, TheWeek, 18 June 2026
  • In the centuries-old Cape Town Muslim community of my childhood, none of this was particularly unusual; older people spoke freely about ghosts or jinn, counseling us to take precautions of prayers, salt, incense, to limit our interaction with them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
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“Daimon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daimon. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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