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 During my childhood in San Jose, California, Costco was a source of many cherished treats—the six-pouch box of Ghirardelli triple-chocolate brownie mix comes to mind. Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 There will be puppy chow and PBR, a burger of the week and Oreo brownies, mimosas and made-to-order breakfast sandwiches. Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025 Black Bean Brownies Black bean brownies are fudgy, indulgent, and packed with protein, making for a rich and satisfying dessert. Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025 The Peppermint Brownie Bark Shake offers customers a decadent blend of creamy vanilla soft serve with chocolate chunk brownie pieces and a sprinkle of cool, crushed peppermints. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brownie
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Noun
  • But stealing the show was the family matriarch, Kris Jenner, 69, who dressed as a woodland fairy for the occasion in a green sparkly, floral mini dress and fairy wings, while Khloé herself wore an animal print onesie.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The color-changing micro fairy LEDs were incredibly easy to activate.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hanging fireplace, seemingly lit by house elves, pairs nicely with the gratis bottles of spirits and Chilean wine.
    Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hunger-desire gleaming in their eyes brought to mind that poem about goblin men selling goblin fruit.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to the orange pumpkin, white ghost and green goblin, there will be a red zombie and a black cat.
    Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • As kobolds go, Heinzelmann was more harmless than most, going about his business protecting the castle from giants and dwarves and keeping the staff updated on faerie gossip, as well as protecting the chambermaids from unwelcome attentions from visiting noblemen.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Most standard-sized fruit trees should be spaced about 20 to 25 feet away from each other and homes, but dwarf varieties can be planted closer together.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Like those lunatic trolls who emerge now and then to threaten the children of right-wing media targets, the gooners are just having fun, playing around, saying the things one says to get ahead in their particular community.
    Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The trolls each have a story, and Dambo often makes children's books to go along with the sculptures, which are located across the world.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Brownie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brownie. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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