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an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
- during the World Wars, fighter pilots adopted the fanciful notion that gremlins were responsible for mechanical failures on their planes
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“Gremlin.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gremlin. Accessed 12 December 2019.
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The first known use of gremlin was in 1941
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