as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
dreamed that her garden was the secret meeting place of pucks and sprites
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Recent Examples of puck
The iPhone 17 and Pro models support up to 25W wireless charging via MagSafe, while the Air charges at up to 20W when on a wireless puck.
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PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Get a little bit stronger on the puck battles.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
The treads attach to all glass walls with a hockey puck-size titanium hardware, making both the glass stairs and the shoppers appear to float.
—Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Passing through clear plastic tubes, muck was sliced into disks like hockey pucks.
—Rodrique Ngowi, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
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PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Get a little bit stronger on the puck battles.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
The treads attach to all glass walls with a hockey puck-size titanium hardware, making both the glass stairs and the shoppers appear to float.
—Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Passing through clear plastic tubes, muck was sliced into disks like hockey pucks.
—Rodrique Ngowi, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
Noun
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Pair the duo with fairy lights, a thin linen runner, and more faux foliage to create a stunning seasonal scene.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
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The fairy houses – known as domus de janas in Sardinian – date back over 5,000 years to the late Neolithic and Copper Age.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Four years later, the mischievous elf with pointy ears and a toothy grin made its leap to collectible toy thanks to China’s Pop Mart.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This simple act of kindness helps spread the Halloween spirit to all the little goblins and ghosts.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Sep. 2025
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Leigh Gill is set to play Griphook, after his brief appearance as another goblin, Red, in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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
Noun
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An astronaut on the International Space Station has captured a rare kind of lightning called a sprite while traveling 250 miles above the Texas–Mexico border.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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But sprites are the most often seen, captivating their observers.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Russia's Influence Operations in 2016, Russia conducted extensive campaigns during the presidential election, employing fake personas, troll farms, and manipulated content to inflame racial, ideological, and cultural divisions.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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These groups are better thought of as fandoms—a hybrid threat network of disaffected people that can include Columbine obsessives, neo-Nazis, child groomers, and trolls.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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