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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
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Featuring humans, elves, orcs and other fantastical creatures engaging in wars, treasure hunts and campaigns, the D&D game, one of Hasbro’s key franchise brands hailing from Wizards of the Coast, is overseen by a host, known as the Dungeon Master, and employs a signature multisided dice.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2025
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The film, directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum, follows Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised as an elf in Santa’s workshop who returns to New York City to meet his biological father, played by the late James Caan.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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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
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This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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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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For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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Without these reference points, Lu’s team could not match the sprites to their parent lightning discharges.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2025
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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
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Meaningful Content Moderation Businesses have a responsibility to their brand and customers to protect their online properties from harmful content, internet trolls and other not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content.—
Vidya Plainfield,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The online troll, of course, misses the mark on all three of these categories.—
Jed Brewer,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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