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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 last time fans saw it, Shropshire stepped out of it wearing an elf costume and holding a game ball for Santa Claus (aka coach Andy Reid).—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2025
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Directed by Jon Favreau, the 2003 movie stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human who was accidentally raised by Santa's elves at the North Pole.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
25 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
Noun
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That often means providing upgrades of low level monsters rather than just throwing more goblins at a problem.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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My dad’s Welsh and among my happiest memories of him are going through Brian Froud’s books about fairies, goblins and trolls.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Some longtime trolls on the right have grown more aggressive and offensive as their ideas have made their way closer to the party’s mainstream.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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And up until this point, she’s seriously delivered with tons of jaw-dropping outfits that always rile up the internet trolls.—
Kleigh Balugo,
StyleCaster,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Why not have Feathers use the smart gnome technology for his own evil purpose?—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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From horses to herons, gnomes to doors that look designed just for them, these are the scavenger hunts worth traveling the South to see.—
Su-Jit Lin,
Southern Living,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The mustache, too, lives on, and he’s trimmed his hair into more of a pixie cut.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
12 Feb. 2025
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Elba’s hair was styled in a pixie cut with a few pieces of fringe to frame her face.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The baked brownies were soft with the perfect amount of chew.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Feb. 2025
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Will sometimes, for no reason, make brownies at home, bring brownie to desk of each person in office, with person’s initials, in M&Ms, on brownie.—
George Saunders,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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 1 Mar. 2025.
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