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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

Seven recruits him to help find the changeling, which is, on its face, a great idea.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 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

The one mythological aspect of the show I did like was its use of the concept of a changeling, which is when a fairy baby gets switched with a human at birth.

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

They would have had good reason to link up with changelings after what happened in “Deep Space Nine.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

His grand idea was to lure the changelings from the Shrike, a superior ship, onto the Titan?

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

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

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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