fairy
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Some of the vehicles abandoned by foreign forces went on display this week, including a Humvee covered in dusty footprints and wrapped in fairy lights.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Their fairy tale marriage shattered in 2015, when Chey divulged in a three-page letter published by a South Korean newspaper that he wanted to divorce Roh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
And like all fairy tales, it has something to tell us about how we are transformed as we encounter the strange and terrifying and magnificent.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Planetary scientists call this the "Goldilocks zone", after the fairy tale girl who was fussy about the temperature of her porridge.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
She was standing there, leaning on that old crutch and looking at the fairy ring.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
It was exactly what we loved: monsters, war, the cruelty of the human spirit, fairies and period settings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
She was alive to folklore that told of fairies and elves and the lingering dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A bit further along, Perreau unveils a light green piece, created by Italian costume designer Ezio Toffolutti for one of the fairies in William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
A horror about mythical Welsh fairies had filming relocated to north Yorkshire after crew found out about strict non-smoking rules on sets in Wales.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
After all, she lived in one of those girl kind of worlds and it was chuck full of strange old men, fairies, angels, spirits, knights in shining armor, and everything else you could think of.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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