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
I asked if he were a leprechaun, and if so, where was his pot of gold?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Things go terribly wrong, resulting in a comedic adventure involving an unusual dragon, bunnies in hazmat suits, leprechaun millennials and an overweight German unicorn in a too-tight tracksuit.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
I felt like a sprite or a hungry leprechaun, turning over leaves in search of a treat, looking under weeds for a pot of gold, or perhaps a turnip.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
Here, good luck is manufactured and carefully distributed into the human world by teams of leprechauns, unicorns and dragons.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Alone of the ‘little people’, leprechauns can speak, though they have never requested reclassification as ‘beings’.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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