puck

as in fairy
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 puck Ovechkin had three shots on Gustavsson, and had a mini-breakaway in the third period thwarted by Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin, who caught Ovechkin from behind and swatted the puck away. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2025 That Boston practice was focused on puck battles and competitiveness following a 7-2 booting by the Kings on Sunday. Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025 With a little over seven minutes left in the game Saturday and the Canadiens trailing 4-3, Matheson collected a puck just outside the Montreal blue line in the neutral zone and began skating up ice. Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025 And Rhino and Barky, two extremely smart players that are incredible protecting the puck and prolonging play. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for puck
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Noun
  • Perhaps to offset her severe personality, the ride adds a new character, a house elf named Higgledy.
    Todd Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Before 10 Things, the young actor gained attention as Bernard, the sarcastic head elf in The Santa Clause (1994).
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • That’s in addition to the strange creatures that roam the countryside such as faeries and dragon.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Without these reference points, Lu’s team could not match the sprites to their parent lightning discharges.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Teasing out the timing of over 90 red sprites and tying over 60 of them to specific strokes of parent lightning, the research reveals that one of South Asia’s largest shows of sprite fireworks arose within a cluster of thunderstorms above the Himalayas in 2022.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The power of such trolls lies in their ability to manipulate the epistemic environment.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The Lakers star then posted an epic troll about Smith on social media, sparking Smith to respond.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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