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Recent Examples of little peopleFernandez was raised in Pittsburgh by adoptive parents, also little people, who’d met at an annual meeting of Little People of America.—E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025 Mickey books him into a residency at the swanky Wynn Casino, passing the whole thing off as part of his newfound interest in giving back to the little people, not his bone-deep interest in looking out for himself.—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025 As an extra challenge for Wheat, the extended (and hair-raisingly hilarious) sequence of a horde of children running through glass doors and breaking down wooden fences was accomplished by 17 little people, meaning the hairstylist had to match each stunt double’s hair to a child actor’s.—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for little people
Various cultures interpreted the ephemeral aberrations as fairies, ghosts or spirits.
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Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
29 Sep. 2025
On the Blumarine spring 2026 runway in Milan on Friday, models tapped into their inner bohemian-fairy party girl personas with charcoal eyeliner smudged around their eyes, faded hues on their lips and tired waves in their hair.
Kate debuted with blonde hair and was immediately met with troll comments.
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Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
27 Sep. 2025
Putin was portrayed as an unsightly troll, who, by an act of magic—a spell cast by the puppet version of Boris Berezovsky, the magnate who helped engineer his rise to the Presidency—comes to appear beautiful and virtuous, the subject of great adulation and deference.
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.
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Tom Daykin,
jsonline.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Linda-Marie Barrett is a writer, editor, and steward of a whimsical garden guarded by gnomes.
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Linda-Marie Barrett
September 10,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, her hair was trimmed in a shaggy pixie cut; the front just barely holding on to the top of her forehead.
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Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
26 Sep. 2025
When last season ended, there was a feeling the Nuggets were going to run it back, throwing their arms in the air and asking coach David Adelman to sprinkle pixie dust on an aging roster increasingly defined by injuries and a lack of versatility.
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.
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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.
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