as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
some people believe that brownies will clean your house if you leave them milk
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Recent Examples of brownie
Bake at 350° F for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the brownies pass the toothpick test.
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
Roan’s favorite order is still on the menu — the James Brownie Funky Jackhammer, a combination of peanut butter, hot fudge, brownies and vanilla frozen custard.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
The meal also comes with chips, Caesar salad and a brownie.
—Sonal Dutt, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Overcooked brownie leads to terrible house fire.
—FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
Roan’s favorite order is still on the menu — the James Brownie Funky Jackhammer, a combination of peanut butter, hot fudge, brownies and vanilla frozen custard.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
The meal also comes with chips, Caesar salad and a brownie.
—Sonal Dutt, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Overcooked brownie leads to terrible house fire.
—FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brownie
Noun
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Dressed as a hot pink fairy, Alexa Bowers brought a drawing of Roan to give to the pop star.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
5 Oct. 2025
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Her perky protagonist notably navigated a romantic relationship with vampire Bill Compton and explored the roots of her own fairy ancestry.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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The special will be made available on Disney+ the following day, and the elves will head to ABC’s shelves later in the season.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Forget goblins and ghouls—being secretly watched and filmed by a stranger is one of my worst fears, especially as a solo female traveler.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Oct. 2025
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Images of mythical creatures — goblins, dragons, flying horses — flash behind her.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The video chip’s control registers, screen bitmaps, text-screen data, default and custom character sets, sprites, and color information all live in different locations scattered across memory, with some data actually living in separate RAM and ROM chips.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Sep. 2025
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An astronaut on the International Space Station has captured a rare kind of lightning called a sprite while traveling 250 miles above the Texas–Mexico border.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Noun
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And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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These two dwarf galaxies orbit the Milky Way at distances of 163,000 and 200,000 light-years, respectively, moving through our galaxy's outer halo of hot gas not too dissimilar, but on a much smaller scale, from the Virgo Cluster's halo of hot gas.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These included inaccuracy, sensationalism of the tragedy, a loss of privacy, uncomfortable interactions with true crime consumers and online trolls, and a lack of control in how the stories are edited, resulting in further harm to their mental wellbeing.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Brownie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brownie. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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