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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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The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community helped Santa’s elves during the recent holiday season in collecting nearly 1,700 toys and bikes that were then donated to local organizations for distribution to families in need in the Twin Cities metro area.—
Jacqueline Devine,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The story follows Ferrell as Buddy, a human man raised by Santa's elves, who ultimately leaves the North Pole to search for his biological father (James Caan) in New York City.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
30 Dec. 2024
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
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Kids consider costumes ranging from spooky goblins to little angels, and parents begin considering how to ration the candy collected after a long night of trick-or-treating.—
Sen. Dan Hall,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Created via motion-capture performances, puppets and voice acting, these haphazard CGI troll wannabes seem supremely out of place in a movie full of humans and one chatty mirror.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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The next advantage logically follows from the previous one—minimizing the risks of theft and exhausting litigation with competitors and IP infringers (for example, pirates or patent trolls), which could arise in the event of an incomplete legislative framework.—
Olena Orliuk,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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First, advent calendars; then gnomes; then the tree; and then Christmas itself.—
Andrew Solomon,
New York Times,
15 Dec. 2024
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Sign up for Target Circle More:Target has up to 65% off artificial Christmas trees, gnome decor, ornaments and more 9.—
Kasey Caminiti,
USA TODAY,
26 Nov. 2024
Noun
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If nothing else, at least this pixie cut means we’re bound to see Emma don even more temporary hair looks.—
Kleigh Balugo,
StyleCaster,
19 Mar. 2025
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Fortunately, the soft pixie is, by nature, a versatile look.—
Daisy Jones,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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It’s made with brownie batter and chocolate chip cookie dough blended with soft serve ice cream.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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The ice cream is, of course, magnificent, the chocolate sauce luscious, the bits of brownie divine.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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One of their most memorable cameos was tied to St. Patrick's Day when Dunham pranked them with fake security footage of a leprechaun in their home.—
Francesca Gariano,
People.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Leave a note from the leprechaun signed with an Irish name.—
Amanda Rock,
Parents,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Changeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/changeling. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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