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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 pucks
There’s an ability there to move pucks.
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Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 7 Dec. 2024
By printing pucks with more than one fuel outlet and sticking them together, researchers could create larger devices that trace wide curves or spin them on the spot.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2024
At their peak speeds, the robots moved at 6 centimeters per second, and in some experiments, the pucks were propelled for as long as 500 seconds.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2024
This product comes in frozen pre-portioned pucks and only needs to be heated up to serve.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2024
For the night out, Patrick wore a gray hoodie and sweats, as his youngest child matched him in a crewneck-and-sweatpants combo, both of which featured illustrations of sporting equipment such as basketballs and hockey pucks.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
From Pegasus and Proteus to Cardinal and Robin, the droids took the form of giant robotic hockey pucks or imposing robotic arms.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
Closing out plays in the D-zone is one of them, having an edge to his game and knocking people off pucks all over the rink is another one, protecting the net front.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
In one of the first film's most memorable scenes, Coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) ties Goldberg to the goal he's supposed to be guarding and orders players to fire pucks at him in order to conquer his fear of goaltending.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024
Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 7 Dec. 2024
By printing pucks with more than one fuel outlet and sticking them together, researchers could create larger devices that trace wide curves or spin them on the spot.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2024
At their peak speeds, the robots moved at 6 centimeters per second, and in some experiments, the pucks were propelled for as long as 500 seconds.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2024
This product comes in frozen pre-portioned pucks and only needs to be heated up to serve.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2024
For the night out, Patrick wore a gray hoodie and sweats, as his youngest child matched him in a crewneck-and-sweatpants combo, both of which featured illustrations of sporting equipment such as basketballs and hockey pucks.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
From Pegasus and Proteus to Cardinal and Robin, the droids took the form of giant robotic hockey pucks or imposing robotic arms.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
Closing out plays in the D-zone is one of them, having an edge to his game and knocking people off pucks all over the rink is another one, protecting the net front.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
In one of the first film's most memorable scenes, Coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) ties Goldberg to the goal he's supposed to be guarding and orders players to fire pucks at him in order to conquer his fear of goaltending.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Pucks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pucks. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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