leprechaun
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There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate ● May 30, 2024
Maybe he was the lucky leprechaun I let slip away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
The ends of the rainbows touched down in the rolling fields below me, no place green enough to hide a leprechaun but a fair swap for living with rattlers.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
The primary cast now includes Jane Fonda, who voices a pink dragon who can sniff out bad luck, and Whoopi Goldberg, who plays a droll leprechaun taskmaster.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
I felt like a sprite or a hungry leprechaun, turning over leaves in search of a treat, looking under weeds for a pot of gold, or perhaps a turnip.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Speaking of trillion-dollar leprechauns, you will hunt through all 545 pages in vain for those big “DOGE” savings you were promised.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
It is easy-breezy, light spirited — rainbows, leprechauns, good luck, good cheer — it is childlike in its commitment to being pure fun.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
Three years later came Crock of Gold, with its album cover featuring a painting by Shane MacGowan of leprechauns that resembled the demons that seemed to haunt him throughout his life.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
Here, good luck is manufactured and carefully distributed into the human world by teams of leprechauns, unicorns and dragons.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Matthew attracted friends like a rainbow attracts leprechauns.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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