kelpie

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Recent Examples of kelpie Gene Hackman's Wife Betsy Searched Online About COVID Symptoms Before Dying of Hantavirus Gene and Betsy's bodies were discovered along with the body of one of their dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, in Santa Fe Summit in February. Tommy McArdle, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025 California Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife of hantavirus days earlier, officials say March 7, 2025 One of the couple’s three dogs, an Australian kelpie mix named Zinna, was found dead in a crate in their home when the couple were discovered on Feb. 26. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025 An examination of the kelpie mix, named Zinnia, found that dehydration and starvation were likely behind the pup's demise. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 But the dead dog is now believed to be their Australian kelpie mix, Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility which is involved in the surviving dogs’ care, said to The Associated Press. Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025 The sheriff’s office initially said the dog was a German shepherd found in a closet, but later clarified the dog was the couple’s kelpie mix, Zinna, and was found in a crate, according to the Associated Press. Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025 The couples’ kelpie mix, Zinna, is the dog that was reportedly found dead. Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025 The couple’s German shepherd, named Bear, survived along with a second dog named Nikita, but their kelpie mix, Zinna, died, according to Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility that is involved in the surviving dogs’ care. Morgan Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kelpie
Noun
  • Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend.
    Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Like a changeling—a motif that recurs throughout the novel—the old narrator has been taken and replaced by someone new.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The motif of changelings—of fairies taking a human child and leaving a nonhuman child in its place—comes up throughout the story.
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Jack-o-lanterns, ghouls and goblins are around every corner, but the scariest creatures of all might be thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And thank the faeries for that.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The special will be made available on Disney+ the following day, and the elves will head to ABC’s shelves later in the season.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Corso has worn 69 schools’ mascot headgear and has dressed up as Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish leprechaun, the Stanford tree and historic figures James Madison and Benjamin Franklin.
    Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • 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.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • From ’20s dandy pin curls on Quinta Brunson and Serena Williams at the Met Gala to Keke Palmer’s ginger pixie, the crop cut has looked up to be this year’s most trending style.
    Essence, Essence, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Jenner and Appleton have been collaborating for years, long before Jenner decided to ditch her trademark pixie cut to grow a bob.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There's also the light fixtures decorated with gnomes, plaster figurines of knights and other medieval figures, and wrought iron decorations created by Cyril Colnik − whose work also can be seen at Milwaukee's Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Linda-Marie Barrett is a writer, editor, and steward of a whimsical garden guarded by gnomes.
    Linda-Marie Barrett September 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Kelpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kelpie. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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