ogre
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After World War II, Franco was regarded as the “primary resident ogre of Western Europe.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
You’ll get “Shrek 5” where Shrek’s ogre offspring use TikTok, and you’ll like it.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
While stressing that she hasn’t worked so hard in her life, she seems a bit incredulous that Bowman used to be such an ogre on deck.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
He also finds ogre survivors living in Rimuru’s kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
But I passed the day with a green ogre and a talking donkey while I waited for my parents to come to England.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
The latest model had a tendency to mention other creatures as well: raccoons, trolls, ogres and pigeons, to be specific.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Alongside telling it to avoid platitudes, it said Codex should "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query".
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
These networks -- just like humans, onions, and ogres -- have layers, which makes them tricky to navigate.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
She remakes her biography as though it were a tale by Charles Dickens, full of villainous ogres and scrapes with melodramatic disasters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
It was three days from now, and I was even farther from the giants than I had been when the ogres had captured me.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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