nixies

plural of nixie

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nixies
Noun
  • Where are True Blood's vampires, shapeshifters, werewolves, and fairies today?
    Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Best Mess-Free Craft Kit If your kid likes scratch art—and fairies, rainbows, and unicorns—this kit is sure to be a hit.
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ghosts and goblins, along with Pikachu and princesses, filled the grounds of Heritage Hill Historical Park over the weekend.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Jack-o-lanterns, ghouls and goblins are around every corner, but the scariest creatures of all might be thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The special will be made available on Disney+ the following day, and the elves will head to ABC’s shelves later in the season.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fernandez was raised in Pittsburgh by adoptive parents, also little people, who’d met at an annual meeting of Little People of America.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Mickey books him into a residency at the swanky Wynn Casino, passing the whole thing off as part of his newfound interest in giving back to the little people, not his bone-deep interest in looking out for himself.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And thank the faeries for that.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There's also the light fixtures decorated with gnomes, plaster figurines of knights and other medieval figures, and wrought iron decorations created by Cyril Colnik − whose work also can be seen at Milwaukee's Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Linda-Marie Barrett is a writer, editor, and steward of a whimsical garden guarded by gnomes.
    Linda-Marie Barrett September 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These included inaccuracy, sensationalism of the tragedy, a loss of privacy, uncomfortable interactions with true crime consumers and online trolls, and a lack of control in how the stories are edited, resulting in further harm to their mental wellbeing.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The left winger has been in the first XI just three times and is the latest member of the social media trolls’ ‘007’ club, the term used to describe a player who has not registered a goal or an assist in their first seven games.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Molly Ringwald’s Textured Bob One of the most memorable redheads of the ’80s, Molly Ringwald was also a short-hair icon, chopping her strands into bobs and pixies in a variety of textures.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But among last night’s unusually high volume of pixies, the vibes were undeniably 1920s-coded.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Nixies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nixies. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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