nixie

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Recent Examples of nixie This full function clock created by electronico is crafted from vintage nixie tubes. Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
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Noun
  • Monster cats, women with ravenous mouths in the back of their heads, mountain goblins, mermaids with carp bodies, foxes that transform into samurai messengers—the list goes on.
    Katherine Larson July 16, Literary Hub, 16 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Moms are the do-it-all elves who make the holidays happen.
    Elizabeth Broadbent, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Mingle with enchanting wizards, witches, elves, fairies, princesses and dragons.
    Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
    Huntley Woods, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Prepare for more possible flack from online trolls, though.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In a video shared on social media, the hockey team shared the close call between a wild grizzly bear and the team’s mascot, Buoy the sea troll, while the team was out fly fishing in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, according to UPI.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Aug. 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
  • Plastic gnomes, pink flamingos, and, even worse, MAGA signs are only the beginning.
    Ashley Baker, Air Mail, 19 July 2025
  • From nearly 100,000 sports cards to collections of fingernail clippings, brewery coasters, oil lamps, gnomes, porcelain pigs, Elvis Presley or Princess Diana memorabilia and even taxidermy displays of tigers, the list was long.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • 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

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“Nixie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nixie. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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