2006, Wayne Barlowe, God's Demon, Tor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 269:
A sound like the screeching blast of a dozen fumaroles split the air as the enraged ex-god countered with a clawing combination of strokes that pushed the demon backward with their ferocity into his own troops.
2010, Salman Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 141:
The Aalim have always been around—after all, there's no escape from the Past, the Present, and the Future, is there?—but for a long time they left the management of things to the gods of the period, the same ex-gods you see here, inefficient deities who didn't always do such a good job.
2012, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Sun God Seeks…Surrogate?[1], Hachette Book Group, →ISBN:
[…] an ex-god who's now mortal (Kinich); a human who's now a god with no dang clue about her mortality status and is pregnant with the ex-god's baby (that one is me, in case you were wondering); […]