demigod

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Recent Examples of demigod Percy Jackson and the Olympians introduces a new generation of demigods Season 2 recently wrapped filming in Vancouver. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025 Fortunately for Percy there is Camp Half-Blood—a place where demigods like himself can learn to harness their powers and use them for good. Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2024 Season three will be based on The Titan’s Curse, the third book in Riordan’s series, and introduce a fan-favorite character in Nico di Angelo, a young demigod who is new to Camp Half-Blood. Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025 The naga, a Sanskrit word for snake or serpent, is an anthropomorphic demigod of sorts that appears in Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cultures. Judy Berman, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for demigod
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demigod
Noun
  • It was emptied of us and, therefore, full of dunes and demons, bogs and bleeding trees.
    Devon Walker-Figueroa, The New York Review of Books, 3 July 2025
  • Things become messy when a popular rival boy band – The Saja Boys – are revealed to be demons.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Andy, once a centuries-old immortal who has now lost her healing powers, must race across continents to recover her magic, all the while facing deadly mercenaries and ancient evils.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • Andy asks Quynh to join the rest of the immortals, but Quynh refuses and instead teams up with Discord.
    Caroline Blair, People.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Jacobs-Jenkins cannot help noting that among that generation of Bible-quoting civil rights worthies are enough sins of the father to burden a host of sons.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Martin Luther King, Senator J. William Fulbright, and California Gov. Pat Brown all said so and who would know better than these worthies?
    Walter E Block, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The shepherds were visited by an angel and guided to the infant king.
    Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Showrunner Tony Tost was truly an angel, and everyone on board were such freak-ass nerds about TV and cinema, and were so excited to share all these reference points with me, like Colombo.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Thanks to courses in communication studies, students are schooled in the evolving business models of the creative industries, and dive into allyship and advocacy through sound studies and the school’s eminence in audiology.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The eminence whom the film casts as the prime mover of benevolent governance is Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican (the breed wasn’t uncommon then) who was the state’s governor from 1959 to 1973.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The fun-loving spirit of the shimmery product was captured in the punky campaign, inspired by the 2012 thriller in which Gomez starred alongside Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine and James Franco.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 8 July 2025
  • There was no moment in the tournament that better captured the spirit of football and its role as an emotional release valve than when every member of the squad hounded Gray.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Even so, last year, the city of Hartford picked up the tab for $150,000 in maintenance that covered cutting down dead trees that posed a safety hazard; hauling away illegally dumped items and removing of overgrowth and mowing around hundreds of headstones and monuments.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2025
  • The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Aeacus, a judge of the dead, and Thanatos, winged daemon of death, are chthonic.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • The Rose Field begins where the second book, The Secret Commonwealth leaves off: Lyra alone in a city full of daemons, or physical projections of a person's soul, looking for Pantalaimon as her mentor, Malcolm Polstead, searches for her.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025

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