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
Perhaps no one on the Sharks roster needed to have a good night more than goalie Alex Nedeljkovic, whose puck mishaps last Thursday led directly to the Sharks’ overtime loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs skates with the puck against Dylan Larkin #71 of the Detroit Red Wings during the first period at Little Caesars Arena on October 11, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Their best chance came late when a McAvoy off-wing slapshot produced a fat rebound for David Pastrnak but, with half the net at which to shoot, the puck bounced over his blade.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
The device, about the size of a hockey puck, is filled with blood and hangs from his skinny frame.
—Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs skates with the puck against Dylan Larkin #71 of the Detroit Red Wings during the first period at Little Caesars Arena on October 11, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Their best chance came late when a McAvoy off-wing slapshot produced a fat rebound for David Pastrnak but, with half the net at which to shoot, the puck bounced over his blade.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
The device, about the size of a hockey puck, is filled with blood and hangs from his skinny frame.
—Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
Noun
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Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The hanging fireplace, seemingly lit by house elves, pairs nicely with the gratis bottles of spirits and Chilean wine.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
16 Oct. 2025
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And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Jack-o-lanterns, ghouls and goblins are around every corner, but the scariest creatures of all might be thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
13 Oct. 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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The video chip’s control registers, screen bitmaps, text-screen data, default and custom character sets, sprites, and color information all live in different locations scattered across memory, with some data actually living in separate RAM and ROM chips.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Sep. 2025
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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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These included inaccuracy, sensationalism of the tragedy, a loss of privacy, uncomfortable interactions with true crime consumers and online trolls, and a lack of control in how the stories are edited, resulting in further harm to their mental wellbeing.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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