fairy tale
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The fairy tale of the princess and the pea tells of a young royal so sensitive she could detect a tiny pea hidden beneath many mattresses.
From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026
By the time I understood this in the late ’90s, we were living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, and the fact carried the weight of a fairy tale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Released in 2010, “Tangled” is Disney’s animated take on the fairy tale “Rapunzel,” about a young princess with long blond magical hair who had been unknowingly kidnapped and secreted away in an isolated tower.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
A Goldilocks economy, as the fairy tale goes, is not too fast and not too slow.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026
The houses looked bent and crooked, like houses in a fairy tale.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
