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What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?—Huntley Woods, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2023 Their first four children are appropriately adorable, but their fifth child is a violent oddball and possibly a changeling.—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023 Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling.—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023 Since then, the Star Trek franchise has studiously avoided the changelings.—Alex Cranz, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for changeling
The entrance to elf land was about to be democratized.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 July 2025
That excitement, though, is never quite fulfilled in this story of two elf brothers (voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) who try to complete a spell to bring their father back to life for a day.
For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.
To some, the creatures that purportedly visited Kelly — about eight miles north of Hopkinsville — became known as goblins.
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Josh Wood,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
Monster cats, women with ravenous mouths in the back of their heads, mountain goblins, mermaids with carp bodies, foxes that transform into samurai messengers—the list goes on.
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Katherine Larson
July 16,
Literary Hub,
16 July 2025
On social media, the governor has crafted this new persona as a Trump-esque troll, posting in ALL CAPS and in Trump's signature style, generating AI memes at Trump's expense, excoriating MAGA as a bunch of lemmings and essentially playing POTUS' own game against him.
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Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
In recent weeks, California Governor Gavin Newsom has given his press office free rein to go full all-caps troll mode on X.
Plastic gnomes, pink flamingos, and, even worse, MAGA signs are only the beginning.
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Ashley Baker,
Air Mail,
19 July 2025
From nearly 100,000 sports cards to collections of fingernail clippings, brewery coasters, oil lamps, gnomes, porcelain pigs, Elvis Presley or Princess Diana memorabilia and even taxidermy displays of tigers, the list was long.
With a short base cut, tapered front locks, and slightly longer layers, the Trinity cut rides the line between a pixie cut and a bob, borrowing from the cyberpunk and boyish aesthetics of the movies.
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Jeanne Ballion,
Glamour,
10 Aug. 2025
But he really gets worked up by the concept of Anna in Tess’s body with a pixie cut and a low-cut dress.
Featuring a hostile-looking leprechaun with both fists up, as if prepared to spar, the logo was associated with the South Bend, Indiana, school as Notre Dame claimed football national championships in 1966, 1973, 1977 and 1988 and played in national title games in 2012 and again last season.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
21 Aug. 2025
Schreiber starred on the big screen in 2018's Den of Thieves and memorably played the feisty leprechaun Mad Sweeney on Starz's American Gods.
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