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
Ottawa’s Canadian Tire Centre embraces its icy identity with the Red Line Attack Nachos, served in a novelty hockey puck container.
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Nasha Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Bratt can also put the puck in the net himself, with 150 career goals in eight seasons with New Jersey.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
This will create a vacuum and suck the coffee puck back up with it.
—Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 19 Apr. 2025
Sergei Bobrovsky got the hook 24 minutes and 53 seconds into Game 4 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final after the Edmonton Oilers put a puck past him for the fifth time.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Nasha Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Bratt can also put the puck in the net himself, with 150 career goals in eight seasons with New Jersey.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
This will create a vacuum and suck the coffee puck back up with it.
—Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 19 Apr. 2025
Sergei Bobrovsky got the hook 24 minutes and 53 seconds into Game 4 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final after the Edmonton Oilers put a puck past him for the fifth time.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
Noun
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Sure, that Christmas elf mistook them as Christopher’s two dads back in Season 2, but no main characters have ever genuinely vocalized the possibility of a Buck-Eddie pairing.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
21 Mar. 2025
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Michelle Obama couldn’t make it, but part-time-painter George W. Bush had space in his diary (like all mischievous elves straight after Christmas), and the poor woman behind BFG Barron missed the whole event.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Kids consider costumes ranging from spooky goblins to little angels, and parents begin considering how to ration the candy collected after a long night of trick-or-treating.—
Sen. Dan Hall,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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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
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Half the art is superhuman sprites shrouded in fire and lasers; the other covers look like Grok was trained on an anime gooner algorithm.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
26 Mar. 2025
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At the highest graphics settings, the sprites in the game were more crisp.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
17 Dec. 2024
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But also the trolls who run amok without guardrails or moderation.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
23 Apr. 2025
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One of the best aspects of the NFL's traveling draft show, however, might be when ex-players make their respective former teams' selections and troll rivals (David Akers, anyone?).—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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