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
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie lead the series as the star-crossed, puck-smashing Shane and Ilya.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
The veteran netminder, who backstopped the Panthers to its first two Stanley Cups the past two seasons, saw the puck slip into the back of his net twice in the third period against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Pittsburgh’s Erik Karlsson inadvertently gloved the puck between the legs of Penguins goalie Artūrs Šilovs.
—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Yet despite the growing global consensus that all trysts should start on the opposite sides of a hockey puck, most real-life skating entanglements occur between athletes on the same team.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 3 Feb. 2026
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
The veteran netminder, who backstopped the Panthers to its first two Stanley Cups the past two seasons, saw the puck slip into the back of his net twice in the third period against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Pittsburgh’s Erik Karlsson inadvertently gloved the puck between the legs of Penguins goalie Artūrs Šilovs.
—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Yet despite the growing global consensus that all trysts should start on the opposite sides of a hockey puck, most real-life skating entanglements occur between athletes on the same team.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 3 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
Noun
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Families will find the fairy train running through the trees, and there’s an activities station for children.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Hair stylist Jonathan Van Ness, counselor Karamo Brown, chef Antoni Porowski, interior designer Bobby Berk (through season 8; Jeremiah Brent takes over in season 9), and fashion expert Tan France are the fairy godparents dreams are made of.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The theft follows a similar incident in December, when members of the same group flooded into a Montreal grocery store dressed as Santa Clause and his elves, stealing food and leaving some of it gift-wrapped under a nearby Christmas tree.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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One of Magnason’s first jobs was at the National Archives of Iceland, where he was surrounded by books about the old Norse gods, colonial histories, and even stories about elves.—
Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
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Meet the goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni), a predator so rare that fewer than 250 individuals have ever been recorded worldwide.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The plot follows a young girl who ends up wishing away her baby brother into the goblin labyrinth.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And thank the faeries for that.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 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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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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