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Recent Examples of Synonyms for little people
Noun
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Thor: The Dark World' (2013) Chris Hemsworth’s thunder god has a sequel that’s a blender of familiar fantasy tropes as Thor and love interest Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) have to deal with a dark elf with an Infinity Stone.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 July 2025 -
In contrast, Tolkien imagined elves as elegant and refined, while humans had the capacity to be as barbaric as orcs, or as noble as elves.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
Noun
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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
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Brown and Kountz play Luna and Marvin, a couple who moves to Evergreen Lane with a passion for goblins and ghouls that inspires the whole neighborhood to go all in.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Modi’s army of internet trolls came after me with threats, abuse and digital vandalism.—
Aatish Taseer,
Time,
15 July 2025
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As a sign of their whimsical and enigmatic nature, TLEs are called all sorts of fantastical names by scientists—elves, trolls, jets and ghosts, for instance.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The festival is open to all and features activities for children, including a garden gnome hunt, dance and an arts and crafts booth hosted by ArtStart, a local nonprofit, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.—
Safiya Mohamed,
Twin Cities,
13 June 2025
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Wallace has a different mouth for each phonetic sound, clay desks are artificially rusted and 60 versions of the gnome robot alone were created.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The former paired her lip with a pixie cut and champagne shadow, while the latter went with blue eyeliner and braids to match her party girl era.—
Essence,
Essence,
21 July 2025
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Her complexion, like her pixie cut, was clean, embellished with touches of pink blush and highlighter.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
18 July 2025
Noun
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What do leprechauns do with their unfinished dinner?—
Nicole Harris,
Parents,
27 Feb. 2025
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Channel your inner leprechaun at a bar crawl across downtown spots like Penn Social and Hill Country.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
13 Mar. 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
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