leprechaun
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He memorably dressed up as a leprechaun, another time as an FBI agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Most Americans are familiar with the Snap, Crackle and Pop kids, Tony the Tiger, the Lucky Charms leprechaun, the Trix rabbit, Toucan Sam from Froot Loops and dozens more.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate ● May 30, 2024
Things go terribly wrong, resulting in a comedic adventure involving an unusual dragon, bunnies in hazmat suits, leprechaun millennials and an overweight German unicorn in a too-tight tracksuit.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Not leprechaun green or grass green, but more like limeade green.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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
Dinklage has used his platform to fight Hollywood depictions of dwarfs as leprechauns or elves, and he’s pushed back against society’s tendency to highlight “the cutesiness of little people.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 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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