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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The Avs turned the puck over at the Buffalo blue line, and former Colorado forward Nicolas Aube-Kubel won a battle in the neutral zone before springing Malenstyn behind the defense.
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Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2024
This equipment used airflow to lift and move wafers, much like a puck in a game of air hockey.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024
Brink’s line with Cates and Tyson Foerster was its best Friday territorially, as well as helping to generate the first goal, which came when Foerster blocked an Adam Fox shot in the defensive zone and raced the other way before flipping the puck to Brink, who was charging in alone.
—Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 30 Nov. 2024
Point was awarded his third goal of the game at Amalie Arena when Capitals goalie Charlie Lindgren tried to play the puck behind him but instead put it into his own net.
—Jacob Lev, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
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Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2024
This equipment used airflow to lift and move wafers, much like a puck in a game of air hockey.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024
Brink’s line with Cates and Tyson Foerster was its best Friday territorially, as well as helping to generate the first goal, which came when Foerster blocked an Adam Fox shot in the defensive zone and raced the other way before flipping the puck to Brink, who was charging in alone.
—Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 30 Nov. 2024
Point was awarded his third goal of the game at Amalie Arena when Capitals goalie Charlie Lindgren tried to play the puck behind him but instead put it into his own net.
—Jacob Lev, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
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Even with those issues, Rock still managed to sell the first main sketch of the night, about a Christmas mall elf giving parents the uncomfortable choice between a white Santa (James Austin Johnson) and a Black Santa (Devon Walker) for their kids.Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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Although the elves will be on display 24 hours a day, they will only be animated at the following times: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
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Watching him dance and sing with a room full of demented goblins never really gets old.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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The valley is unofficially divided into three sections: the First Valley, a mostly flat area with stunted goblins; the Second Valley, marked by a large gray dome with slightly taller goblins; and the Third Valley.Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024
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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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The statue appeared to be a sprite, a depiction of a mythical being that serves as a guardian over the land.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2024
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The top-down adventure has you, as a tiny Link sprite, proceed through the strange Koholint Island after being shipwrecked.Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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There are dragons and trolls in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, along with important swords and a race of long-lived elflike people called the Sithi, but Williams subverts the usual tropes.Sarah Jones, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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Microsoft’s Tay in 2016 is a prime example of chatbot training gone awry — within 24 hours of its launch, internet trolls manipulated Tay into spouting offensive language.Anisha Sircar, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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