ogre
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But the only ogre in this story is Dahl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The roommate, Dave Schaller described the client - a large man who he said looked like "an ogre" and drove a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche, a unique vehicle.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
After World War II, Franco was regarded as the “primary resident ogre of Western Europe.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 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
When I said her name, one of the knights called out, “The ogre tamer. What ever happened to her?”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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
Forms and figures loomed out of the rain: boulders in our path, gruesome as ogres to my susceptible wits, hulking, pocked and eyed with limpets, shaggy with weeds.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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A Mythical Menagerie
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