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How to use the word genie in a Sentence?

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The US gets to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle for three years and then The US can deal with The US in 2025 one more time.

Ali Shabani

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My guess is that inflation will be lower next year than it was this year and quite likely will be lower in 2024 than in 2023. But I think is not going to be easy to bring inflation back to the kind of levels we have been accustomed to in recent decades, we have let the genie out of the bottle.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you encourage hate, it’s not like a genie in a bottle where you can pull it out and push it back in whenever you want, there’s too much perpetuating these belief systems to make them go away.

Manjusha Kulkarni

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We can't just go back 20 years, the world is at a different place and storytellers are at a different place. You can't just put the genie back in the bottle.

Arpita Chatterjee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

Brad Moss

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is hard to try to put the genie back in the bottle once you have an epidemic. if you have measles, coronavirus, plus the flu, it's hard to fight that.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The market and the public have already let the genie out of the bottle and it will be difficult to put it back in without the The FDA and government showing clear proof that there is evidence showing a negative health impact.

Yasmin Hurd

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What Robin Williams did with this character - he just didn't leave a lot of room to add to the genie. So I started off fearful but then when I got with the music, it just started waking up that fun, childlike, silly part of me, this was the most joyful experience of my career.

Will Smith

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You're not going to pluck a Steve Jobs out of a genie jar, apple Music needed to make some moves.

Laura DiDio

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw... some dark genie inside me -- that I very much hesitate to call a disease -- that led me to dope.

Anthony Bourdain

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Trust me, if the data was coming back and we saw spikes in violent crime, we saw spikes in overall crime, there would be a lot of people looking for that bottle and figuring out how we get the genie back in, it doesn't seem likely to me, but I'm not ruling it out.

John Hickenlooper

Found on CNN
6 years ago

When you let that genie out of the bottle – bigotry, racism, intolerance – they don’t go back into the bottle that easily, if they go back in at all.

Bruce Springsteen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There was nobody else who could be the genie and fortunately he agreed to do it, he had so much energy and so much passion.

Ron Clements

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think the reality is that the activism on legal issues is also getting bigger, every time you try to put the genie back in the bottle, you have to round up a greater number of people.

Nicholas Bequelin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There would be many high risks for the stability of the euro zone with such a step, it would let a genie out of the bottle that would be hard to control.

Peter Bofinger

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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