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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

In performance, while his bandmates concentrated on their instruments, Mr. Suzuki shimmied around the stage like a psychedelic imp, often barefoot and shirtless, his face hidden by an undulating mane of long black hair.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

May looked from Jack to the imp and back, and her eyes went wide.

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

Ms. Waller-Bridge understands that we are all laws unto ourselves, governed by our own special imps of the perverse.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2019

In addition to elves and dwarves and imps there are also trolls and munchkins and leprechauns and a million other short-statured mystical characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2018

‘So you have yet another of these imps with you!’ he cried.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

"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

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

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