leprechaun
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A leprechaun costume at Notre Dame might seem silly, but Parker said Bowden owned it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate ● May 30, 2024
The colorful cast of characters includes Shadow’s walking dead ex-wife, whom he accidentally reanimates after tossing a gold coin from a rowdy leprechaun into the open grave at her funeral.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
The ends of the rainbows touched down in the rolling fields below me, no place green enough to hide a leprechaun but a fair swap for living with rattlers.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
“I asked the same question the first time I saw one. That leprechaun still sends me hate mail.”
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
Dinklage has used his platform to fight Hollywood depictions of dwarfs as leprechauns or elves, and he’s pushed back against society’s tendency to highlight “the cutesiness of little people.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2022
The leprechauns, who had risen angrily into the air like a swarm of glittering hornets when Mullet had been fouled, now darted together to form the words “HA, HA, HA!”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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