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
Eventually – as viewers of the Disney film will know - Belle falls in love with the ogre and discovers he is in fact a prince.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
Who knew watching a fairy tale based on an ogre living in a dark swamp could be so thrilling?
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
We race to the elevators and dart between the legs of a tall green ogre about to step into Lucy.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
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
He loves all disfigured nasties, be they swamp creatures, eyeball-less ogres or bolt-headed Hellboys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
These networks -- just like humans, onions, and ogres -- have layers, which makes them tricky to navigate.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
“It totally is,” I say, imagining screeching banshees circling overhead and grinning ogres waiting in the shadows to snatch us up.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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