fairy tale

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Recent Examples of fairy tale This is a real-life fairy tale if there ever was one. María Mérida, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025 Just like Kate and William brought us unity in 2011, or Meghan and Harry gave us a fresh infusion of fairy tale in 2018, Taylor and Travis could give us the kind of glittering love story that feels big enough to belong to everyone. Erin Hill, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Last season was a fairy tale, in the best sense of the word. David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 When the backdrop looks like it’s been plucked straight from the pages of a fairy tale, bland hospitality simply won’t do. Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fairy tale
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fairy tale
Noun
  • And then everything else about the money is just another lie.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The tale is pilfered from the Aeneid, but Virgil would blench to see the curtain rise on Jupiter, dandling Ganymede, a beautiful boy, upon his knee.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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“Fairy tale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fairy%20tale. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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