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Recent Examples of changeling
Since then, the Star Trek franchise has studiously avoided the changelings.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for changeling
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There are many questions left unanswered in Red One, but the most pressing has to be: Is the Rock playing an elf or not?Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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In 2023, Deschanel was Little Red Riding Hood and Scott was an elf.Liza Esquibias, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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There are knights with a strong sense of chivalry, and dueling beliefs in faeries and Jesus Christ, and a deep passion for questing.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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The faeries around her are powerful, immortal and beautiful.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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Liberal democratic states make citizens; the artificial state makes trolls.Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Powerful troll kings, Suliskongen and Vågakallen were among them, but both leaders struggled to control their young.David Nikel, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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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
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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.Reid McCarter, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
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Posing for photos, Bailey wore an identical orange bikini and white knife belt, while sporting the older actress’ iconic pixie cut.Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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But what really seals the deal on making this costume one for the books is the pixie cut.Marci Robin, Allure, 30 Oct. 2024
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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
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Top it off with a black sesame brownie with fresh berries and vanilla ice cream for dessert.Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
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In her 20s at the time, Aniston stars as a young woman living in a house haunted by an evil leprechaun.James Mercadante, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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The possibility that such a thing still exists in our divided country seems as improbable as leprechauns, mermaids or gas under $3 a gallon.Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Changeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/changeling. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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