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Recent Examples of changelingSince then, the Star Trek franchise has studiously avoided the changelings.—Alex Cranz, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023 The folktale of the changeling is here recontextualized into a modern setting.—Sheena Scott, Forbes, 18 June 2021 In most stories, a changeling is a fairy child that replaces a human one, typically without the baby or the human parents knowing.—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Jan. 2021 True History of the Kelly Gang focuses its culture-wide vision into an unhidden life, divided into three sections: BOY is where young Ned (Orlando Schwerdt) resembles a pale, blond changeling who could become anything.—Armond White, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020 See all Example Sentences for changeling
Afraid of evil spirits, the Celts would light up bonfires by the hilltops, and wear masks to hide their identity from the ghosts; this is how this holiday began to be associated with figures such as witches and goblins.
Marco Rubio,
Newsweek,
1 Nov. 2024
The treats are on for hungry goblins as restaurants around central Indiana are offering Halloween specials today.
Cheryl V. Jackson,
The Indianapolis Star,
1 Nov. 2024
At the beginning of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the machine architect, eager to sell the benefits of technology to Gromit, creates a robotic garden gnome programmed to lend the reserved pooch a helping hand.
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Oct. 2024
These range wildly in mood and form, from uncovering the killer in a murder mystery to freeing a gnome who’s been tied up to a windmill blade.
The ghost of Alice B. Toklas, a one-time resident of the city who is famous for weed brownies and her relationship with Gertrude Stein, is said to roam the halls, and guests have reported other spirits knocking things over.
Maynard Alley South
Between Maynard Ave.
Christine Clarridge,
Axios,
16 Oct. 2024
Top it off with a black sesame brownie with fresh berries and vanilla ice cream for dessert.
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