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as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
the child insisted that he'd seen a sprite hiding in the garden
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as in apparition
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
told hair-raising stories of sprites and spectral ships
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More impressive is the full support for 3D graphics alongside 2D sprites.
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Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
To reduce the number of HTTP requests, combine CSS and JavaScript files and use image sprites.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Disney+ Nick Mohammed plays a sprite named Billy Blind, charged with protecting Nell.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
Normally, textures, sprites, models, shaders, prefabs, etc are all saved locally and loaded at the beginning of each level.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
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Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
To reduce the number of HTTP requests, combine CSS and JavaScript files and use image sprites.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Disney+ Nick Mohammed plays a sprite named Billy Blind, charged with protecting Nell.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
Normally, textures, sprites, models, shaders, prefabs, etc are all saved locally and loaded at the beginning of each level.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
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To have a follower recount a feat of superhuman strength, or even an apparition, is hard for a layperson to fathom but has the advantage of having happened in the past and out of the view of nonbelievers.Michelle Weber, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2024
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But there can be more to a scary movie than just screaming apparitions or a gradually diminishing number of coeds with a bad sense of self-preservation.Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 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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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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The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Easier said than done since many of the ghosts that haunt Light Shop are jump-out-of-your-seat scary.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 9 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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In the spirit of holiday giving, the team invites their community to nominate and vote for upstanding charitable organizations that support mothers.Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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The true meaning of Christmas should be celebrated with the spirit of Christmas.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
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The 7-year-old phantom golden doodle is one of a handful of therapy dogs in regional police departments.Bebe Hodges, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
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This phantom or pretend gain is subject to tax, usually at capital gains rates.Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D., Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Emperor tamarins are dwarf monkeys with whiskers that resemble a white moustache.Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
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The dwarf variety grows to be about 5 to 7 feet, ideal for a small garden or accent in a room with limited space.Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
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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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“Sprite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprite. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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