gremlin

"I'm proud to play a commander, I like her very much and she trusts Mando and the little gremlin."

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

I turned into a little party gremlin sheltering in place, you know?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

I scoop it up with Breton crackers, usually while standing at the fridge like a little gremlin.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

The title characters have classic toon precedent — remember the maladroit elves in Tex Avery’s 1950 “The Peachy Cobbler,” or the gremlin in that Bugs Bunny cartoon?

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

Seven was almost positive Valley was a cuco or, at the very least, part gremlin.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

OpenAI said it first noticed increased mentions of goblins, gremlins and other creatures after the launch of GPT-5.1 in November.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

As mechanized as a race — or a movie — can feel, success or failure hinge on the human element, the hero battling the gremlins in the machine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

Or might the notoriously finicky electrical systems in British vehicles bedevil these vehicles with compounded gremlins?

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

At one o’clock in the morning, my little brother, who in my lonely days of inferno dwelling had protected me from goblins, gnomes, gremlins and the devils, was leaving home.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou