leprechaun
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As Fintan O'Toole quipped recently in the Irish Times, his country "found the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow without even trying to catch the leprechaun."
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024
There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate ● May 30, 2024
Maybe he was the lucky leprechaun I let slip away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
One ad stars Jennifer Coolidge as “Lady Luck” as she tries to smuggle a leprechaun through airport security.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
The picture was of some sort of leprechaun wedding.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
Speaking of trillion-dollar leprechauns, you will hunt through all 545 pages in vain for those big “DOGE” savings you were promised.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
It is easy-breezy, light spirited — rainbows, leprechauns, good luck, good cheer — it is childlike in its commitment to being pure fun.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
Three years later came Crock of Gold, with its album cover featuring a painting by Shane MacGowan of leprechauns that resembled the demons that seemed to haunt him throughout his life.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
Here, good luck is manufactured and carefully distributed into the human world by teams of leprechauns, unicorns and dragons.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Alone of the ‘little people’, leprechauns can speak, though they have never requested reclassification as ‘beings’.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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