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
There’s skill on this team, and there’s guys that can put the puck in the net.
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Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
The Canadiens kept the puck in the Bruins’ zone for another 20 seconds, precious time far away from their own net.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
But keeping the puck out of their net has been Chicago’s issue all year.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Louis Foster died on March 25 after taking a puck to the chest while playing goaltender during his amateur league game at the Community First Igloo center in Jacksonville, Fla., according to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by PEOPLE.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
The Canadiens kept the puck in the Bruins’ zone for another 20 seconds, precious time far away from their own net.
—Arpon Basu, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
But keeping the puck out of their net has been Chicago’s issue all year.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Louis Foster died on March 25 after taking a puck to the chest while playing goaltender during his amateur league game at the Community First Igloo center in Jacksonville, Fla., according to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by PEOPLE.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
Noun
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Sure, that Christmas elf mistook them as Christopher’s two dads back in Season 2, but no main characters have ever genuinely vocalized the possibility of a Buck-Eddie pairing.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
21 Mar. 2025
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Michelle Obama couldn’t make it, but part-time-painter George W. Bush had space in his diary (like all mischievous elves straight after Christmas), and the poor woman behind BFG Barron missed the whole event.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
22 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 25 Apr. 2025.
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