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Recent Examples of nixie
This full function clock created by electronico is crafted from vintage nixie tubes.
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Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nixie
Noun
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The series centers around Timmy Turner, a miserable 10-year-old whose life improves significantly after he is given two fairy godparents named Wanda and Cosmo.—
Will Harris,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Jan. 2026
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The toy projects an AI hologram companion that resembles a dragon or fairy.—
Queenie Wong,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The plot follows a young girl who ends up wishing away her baby brother into the goblin labyrinth.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
14 Jan. 2026
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Henson was cast as Hoggle, one of the film’s most prominent goblins and Sarah’s reluctant ally, while also managing puppeteering responsibilities behind the scenes.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The reindeer team, the elf team — everyone will be there.—
Lauren Ashley Bishop,
Variety,
4 Jan. 2026
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Jenkins dressed as Santa Claus at community events and the 6-feet-3-inch, 145-pound Bledsoe as an elf.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The trows might steal you away and leave a changeling in your place.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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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
Noun
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The Royal Russian Midget Troupe was a group of 20 little people who performed throughout Germany, Japan and Russia before coming to the United States in 1932.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
25 Dec. 2025
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Fernandez 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
Noun
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Dell is finally good at something—but as her behavior becomes riskier and a shadowy troll threatens to expose her dark past, Dell must reckon with what her digital life ignores, and what real redemption means.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Canadians woke up Tuesday to an all-too-familiar troll ripping through their social media feeds.—
Paula Newton,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And thank the faeries for that.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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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
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The stop-motion Harrison has friendly interactions with gnomes, a Venus flytrap, a distinguished-looking oak tree, and even a sentient being who lives in a cave.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
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Included are dazzling light displays, live music and enchanting gnome houses.—
Debra Skodack,
Kansas City Star,
3 Dec. 2025
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“Nixie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nixie. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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