leprechaun
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Most Americans are familiar with the Snap, Crackle and Pop kids, Tony the Tiger, the Lucky Charms leprechaun, the Trix rabbit, Toucan Sam from Froot Loops and dozens more.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
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
A clock still hung on the wall, but most everything else lay in tatters on the sodden grass: a flower pot, socks, a festive tinsel leprechaun.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
“In a moment I’m gonna show ye five faces,” she says to the leprechaun.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
“They were just the little beings out in the outskirts of town that would make your life difficult,” Professor Stuart said, comparing them to leprechauns or elves in other traditions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
Ministry wizards were flooding onto the field to separate the veela and the leprechauns, but with little success; meanwhile, the pitched battle below was nothing to the one taking place above.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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