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Recent Examples of kelpie
Maeve learns that the legends she was raised on — stories of faeries, kelpies and seelies — are actually true.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
Al, however, seemed partial to the kelpies, shape-shifting water sprites which most often appear in the form of a horse luring the unsuspecting to watery graves.
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Patti Nickell,
Boston Herald,
15 Feb. 2026
In a September 27 Instagram video, an Australian kelpie named Bats was at work with another dog.
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Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
At first the dog was said to be a German shepherd mix confined in a closet, but this was later corrected to being an Australian kelpie mix in a crate.
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Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
Al, however, seemed partial to the kelpies, shape-shifting water sprites which most often appear in the form of a horse luring the unsuspecting to watery graves.
—
Patti Nickell,
Boston Herald,
15 Feb. 2026
In a September 27 Instagram video, an Australian kelpie named Bats was at work with another dog.
—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
At first the dog was said to be a German shepherd mix confined in a closet, but this was later corrected to being an Australian kelpie mix in a crate.
—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kelpie
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Indulge in a little whimsy with this manicure that’s fit for a garden fairy.
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Meander through a lush, fairy-worthy tapestry of ivy and narrow pathways forged throughout the B&B's history.
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The trows might steal you away and leave a changeling in your place.
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Like a changeling—a motif that recurs throughout the novel—the old narrator has been taken and replaced by someone new.
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Two years ago, the Man City phenom appeared in a 90-second spot for the game that saw him get recruited to storm a castle teeming with goblins, dragons and impish skeletons.
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Follow the babe with the power into Jim Henson’s gloriously weird fantasy wonderland, where goblins sing, doors argue, and David Bowie’s Goblin King serves enough glam-rock charisma to power an entire kingdom.
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Maeve learns that the legends she was raised on — stories of faeries, kelpies and seelies — are actually true.
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The plays are set in locations as varied as courts, forests, battlefields, and even the realm of faerie.
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Ferrell starred as Buddy in the 2003 Christmas classic, which focused on a human adopted by elves and raised as an elf in the North Pole until one day, as an adult, discovering his true identity.
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At the end of 2005-2006, a whole host of elves got arrested and were sent to prison.
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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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According to the History Channel, one legend claims wearing green makes a person invisible to leprechauns — red-bearded fairies that would pinch people who weren’t wearing the color.
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Emma Chamberlain has mastered the art of the messy textured pixie.
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Teyana Taylor Teyana Taylor once again departed from her curly pixie cut, styling straight extensions in its place.
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Lawn Ornaments Too many lawn ornaments, such as gnomes, fairies, dolls, or flamingos, read as tacky to Emily Roose, the founder of Emily Roose Interiors.
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The venerable patriarch is leaning heavily on an ebony cane, and is followed closely by his personal assistant, a bald gnome of a man, armed with a notebook and pencil.
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“Kelpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kelpie. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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