imp
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We watched a Dutch speedskating queen celebrate gold with her fiancé, the Ohio-born YouTube imp Jake Paul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
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
“You didn’t know?” the imp said, grinning evilly.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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
The team will take part in a series of misadventures where they will encounter “ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools.”
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2017
He described a series of intercept capabilities named after Smurfs - the little blue imps of Belgian cartoon fame.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2015
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
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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
"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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 Flora Ross Amos
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 William Lawson
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