as in elf
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
fairies are part of the folklore of many countries and cultures
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Noun
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Moms are the do-it-all elves who make the holidays happen.—
Elizabeth Broadbent,
Miami Herald,
1 Aug. 2025 -
Mingle with enchanting wizards, witches, elves, fairies, princesses and dragons.—
Caroline Ritzie,
The Enquirer,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Is there anything dreamier than being loved for your convictions?—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
4 Aug. 2025
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Rates: $$ Summertime travel has never been hotter in the Caribbean, with many vacationers only now realizing that this warm-weather escape is pretty dreamy year-round.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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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.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
Noun
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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.—
Katherine Larson
July 16,
Literary Hub,
16 July 2025
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In fact, Bolg is the name of a goblin prince from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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Taking a cursed amulet from a dead Prince on a battlefield, Deathstalker teams with Doodad to rid himself of the medallion as he’s marked by dark magick and hunted by monstrous assassins.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
31 July 2025
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Jovan Adepo and Taylour Paige star as a couple who've moved their family to the cursed Maine town of Derry and soon learn that things ain't right.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
28 July 2025
Noun
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Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2022
Adjective
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How to describe the romantic ski weekend montage involving a possessed snowman, in what seems to be an homage to the Wham!—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
1 Aug. 2025
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Jealous, murderous, possessed spouses lend themselves well to cinema, but glimpses of a couple gulping up each other’s daily air is trickier to convey.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
31 July 2025
Noun
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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.—
Jeanne Ballion,
Glamour,
10 Aug. 2025
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But he really gets worked up by the concept of Anna in Tess’s body with a pixie cut and a low-cut dress.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Vulture,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Fairy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fairy. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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