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Recent Examples of changeling
Their first four children are appropriately adorable, but their fifth child is a violent oddball and possibly a changeling.
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Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
Since 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
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Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
Since 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for changeling
Noun
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Obsessed with the fantasy genre, this uniquely creative queen designs and sews her own outfits, often with a ‘futuristic elf’ aesthetic.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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Men in Santa Claus costumes and women dressed as elves are already converging on lower Manhattan to puke into gutters and pee between cars.—
Liam Sherwin-Murray,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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That’s in addition to the strange creatures that roam the countryside such as faeries and dragon.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
6 Nov. 2024
Noun
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So as ghosts and goblins roam the streets this Halloween season, remember that market fears, like shadows in the night, are often more frightening in our imagination than in reality.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes,
29 Oct. 2024
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The event, at the Denver Savoy, will also feature a custom mini-labyrinth and a goblin band in addition to The Whimsy of Things.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
24 Oct. 2024
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Wiener’s office cited the case of a transgender woman in Stanislaus County who successfully sued to have her court records made private after she was forcibly outed on social media and at work by anonymous internet trolls , as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.—
Andrew Sheeler,
Sacramento Bee,
13 Jan. 2025
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In a series of Instagram Stories posted on Thursday, Jan. 9, the country star, 28, clapped back at trolls for coming after his friends online.—
Ilana Kaplan,
People.com,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The gnome incarnates its human creator’s desires and dreams as well as Wallace’s follies.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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This photograph documents a garden gnome owned by a drug dealer.—
Harper's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The 55-year-old Bridget Jones star — who is currently promoting Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the third installment in the rom-com franchise — rocked a pixie cut for the shoot ... a far cry from the long, straight locks she's known for.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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Emma Stone — who debuted her new pixie cut for the first time on the red carpet — was eager to indulge when someone told her that sushi was available in the next room over.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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However, some people add dessert items like chocolate sauce and brownies, which can add more calories and sugar.—
Sohaib Imtiaz,
Verywell Health,
22 Jan. 2025
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Cinnamon rolls, tiramisu cookies, vegan brownies and a seasonal mini-loaf such as cranberry orange loaves are prepared by Milk & Honey Bakery in Rancho Bernardo and Escondido.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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The leprechaun suit stayed because that’s how fandom functions.—
Pete Sampson,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
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American Indians believed in supernatural beings — forest dwellers — who lived in caves, not unlike the Irish leprechauns.—
Diane Owens Prettyman,
Austin American-Statesman,
11 Mar. 2024
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“Changeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/changeling. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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