little people

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Noun
  • Meanwhile, as friendships across the kingdoms are strained by the ripple effects of the Dark Lord’s actions, the forces of good — elves, dwarves, men, Harfoots and a wizard named Gandalf (Weyman) — try to valiantly hold on to what matters to them most of all: each other.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 8 May 2025
  • Photograph: Ying Tang/Getty Images While children are told stories about elves and reindeer, the truth is that hundreds of thousands of people work year-round to make sure Christmas feels magical.
    Zeyi Yang, Wired News, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • From its protrusible jaw to its ability to hunt in every environment, the goblin shark exemplifies adaptation to the extremes.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Thousands of visitors showed up dressed as their favorite characters from all parts of pop culture — superheroes and supervillains, wizards, elves, goblins, animals, Ghostbusters, Jedi and Sith, who all are calling Kansas City home base from Friday, March 21, to Sunday, March 23.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many of those loud and wrong critics are the usual suspects: conservatives who also believe diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are unnecessary and racist trolls who have used AI to turn the statue into a racist caricature.
    Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 14 May 2025
  • Legend tells of trolls living under bridges demanding tolls from those who cross.
    Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The azaleas are popping, the gnomes are flying off the shelves in the merchandise building, and the egg salad sandwiches are in abundance.
    Hugh Kellenberger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • In many ways, the Aardman team had to unlearn some of their trade secrets to create the gnome.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Deutsch, with her ragamuffin-chic blond pixie cut, is a perfect Seberg.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 May 2025
  • In the crowd, Taraji P. Henson and her hairstylist Tym Wallace showed up in matching opalescent grills with the former in a dirty blonde pompadour pixie.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • What do leprechauns do with their unfinished dinner?
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Channel your inner leprechaun at a bar crawl across downtown spots like Penn Social and Hill Country.
    Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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
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