goblin
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The new research, published in the Journal of Fish Biology, reports two healthy goblin sharks observed in the wild.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
The rare, and many say ugly, goblin shark is seen alive for the first time.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
Spielberg turned one of science fiction’s grandest ideas — first contact with alien life — into the story of a boy and his weird little space-faring goblin best friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
A programmer asked the bot why it called itself a goblin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
He was just an archivist, and she was an officer in the goblin army, a lieutenant.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
In a blog post titled “Where the goblins came from,” it said that a safety researcher had flagged several mentions of goblins and gremlins while testing a model released in November.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
It found this system had been unwittingly incentivised to mention goblins, gremlins and other creatures more in metaphors.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Apparently, if left to its own devices, OpenAI’s Codex coding agent is apt to repeatedly talk about goblins apropos of nothing.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
A back door full of ghosts and goblins to enter … it took us you know, the last millennia to get rid of ghosts and goblins…which I think is totally nonsense.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
“So you’re saying that instead of searching through the rest of the castle, we should just save ourselves some time and fight our way through the thousands of goblins to wherever Malevolent is?”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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