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as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
the child insisted that he'd seen a sprite hiding in the garden
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as in apparition
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
told hair-raising stories of sprites and spectral ships
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Recent Examples of sprite
Developer The Game Kitchen already demonstrated its excellent sprite work with Blasphemous, which continues here.
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Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
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
Studying sprites helps scientists understand the electrical balance of the atmosphere, and even the potential impacts on communication technology and aviation.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
The Ivalice Chronicles gives you two versions of Final Fantasy Tactics: an overhauled remaster with cleaner visuals, more intuitive interfaces, and voice acting, and a classic version, which retains the original titles' sprites and gameplay mechanics.
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—Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 6 June 2025
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Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
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
Studying sprites helps scientists understand the electrical balance of the atmosphere, and even the potential impacts on communication technology and aviation.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
The Ivalice Chronicles gives you two versions of Final Fantasy Tactics: an overhauled remaster with cleaner visuals, more intuitive interfaces, and voice acting, and a classic version, which retains the original titles' sprites and gameplay mechanics.
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—Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprite
Noun
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There’s nothing in the world quite like this abbey, located on an island and rising out of the bay like a heavenly apparition.—
Chloe Arrojado,
AFAR Media,
25 July 2025
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Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the rocky planet during its evening apparition in the post-sunset sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 July 2025
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The entrance to elf land was about to be democratized.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 July 2025
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That excitement, though, is never quite fulfilled in this story of two elf brothers (voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) who try to complete a spell to bring their father back to life for a day.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
26 June 2025
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The reporter who had ghost written Gibson’s column the previous year, was unavailable.—
Merlisa Lawrence Corbett,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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The ghost wielders have even resorted to submitting homework through the use of AI—anything to try to keep from getting dropped from a class.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
23 Aug. 2025
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To some, the creatures that purportedly visited Kelly — about eight miles north of Hopkinsville — became known as goblins.—
Josh Wood,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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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
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Oasis is instigating joy on reunion tour What Oasis has brought with this tour, perhaps inadvertently, is a communal spirit.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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And then, a man shares what a difference a year makes — and addresses how his body may be elsewhere now, but his spirit is still in Gaza.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Aug. 2025
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Gesturing toward cinema’s roots in 19th-century phantom rides and panoramas, FELT finds a dynamic new form for the sensory experience of space and movement.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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While phantoms of female anxiety, emotion, and pain proliferate across each timeline, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka articulate their own budding coming-of-age achingly, exquisitely.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
21 July 2025
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Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2022
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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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“Sprite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprite. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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