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changeling

[chaynj-ling] / ˈtʃeɪndʒ lɪŋ /


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That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

I’m sure there’s no strategic advantage to examining a superior changeling ship’s technology when many of them have taken over Starfleet, but we digress.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine".

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2022

I just wish it were enough that Bloom might be the first changeling at her school in ages; why does she also have to be the savior figure?

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2021

It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Unless the Founders themselves chose to withhold the cure from certain changelings.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

“The Changeling” by Victor LaValle uses as its inspiration the stories of changelings, false doubles left in place of human children who are stolen by fairies.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2020

At one point, Bella thinks, “O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.”

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017

In addition to trolls, gnomes and changelings, Arcadia has goblins, lots of them.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2016

Little human changelings, raised in Faerie, but not educated with the Gentry as we are.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black


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