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What consequential life experiences have I missed, taunting my eyeballs, indulging this social media imp turned experimental pugilist as he bumbles around the ring with has-beens and never-weres?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

In others, he’s an imp hiding within an ill-fitting costume of normalcy.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

He works hard for his laughs, sometimes too hard, but he’s an endearing imp — an overwhelmed freelancer trying to survive the unforgiving gig economy of his age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

The experienced tempter warns the imp not to let his subject actually believe in God or satanic powers.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2023

At the same time, an imp darted in from behind, knocking the pouch from Seth’s grasp with a chopping motion.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Inky silhouettes in a red-orange void, they look like Boschian imps, but these are ordinary men in a hell of human making.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

The hand-painted imps, based on a carving of the mischievous creature which adorns Lincoln Cathedral, had been dotted around the city in a bid to boost tourism.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2021

Plus, Matt Berry as a talking sword, and various imps, witches, dragons and goblins, an exploited race among whom revolution, or at least a demand for health care, may be stirring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2021

With a broad, cherubic face, dimpled chin, unruly hair and a charismatic presence described as “gnomelike,” Mr. Pollard excelled at playing imps, half-wits and outright weirdos.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2019

As the imps reached the cloud, electricity crackled, hurling them back.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

He specifically spoke about Hoggle’s “thought disorder,” a condition common among those with schizophrenia that can imped their ability to communicate.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

Possibly he shared his master's belief that "even the best translation is for mere necessity but an evil imped wing to fly withal, or a heavy stump leg of wood to go withal."

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross

"I have joined the wing, father, and I have imped the feathers; but I fear it will be Christmas ere she can fly again."

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Thou hadst in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties lived unknown, Had not my verse extolled thy name, And with it imped the wings of Fame.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

To the end that you may not faile of this worke of imping, you must principally take heed, not to ouer-cleaue the Stockes of your Trees.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by Lawson, William, fl. 1618