Easter Bunny
noun
variants
or Easter bunny
: an imaginary rabbit originating in Germanic folklore that fills baskets left out by children with decorated eggs, candy, and presents and sometimes hides the decorated eggs for children to find on Easter
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He is also known, at times, as the Easter Bunny and other characters who bring children joy.
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Sterling was also pictured with her pink Easter Bunny bag that appeared to be filled with some eggs.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The concept of humans possessing an internal calendar that was somehow capable of determining when roughly a month had gone by was too absurd to be believed—particularly from the person who had helped convince me for half my young life that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were real.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
In related news, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy have been put in charge of compliance and investigations.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2025
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Sterling was also pictured with her pink Easter Bunny bag that appeared to be filled with some eggs.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The concept of humans possessing an internal calendar that was somehow capable of determining when roughly a month had gone by was too absurd to be believed—particularly from the person who had helped convince me for half my young life that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were real.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
In related news, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy have been put in charge of compliance and investigations.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2025
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“Easter Bunny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Easter%20Bunny. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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