as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers some people believe that brownies will clean your house if you leave them milk

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Recent Examples of brownie Be the first to rate & review! Tender and moist brownies with all the goodness of banana bread. Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 2 May 2025 Cookies, cakes, brownies, gummy candies and soft drinks are common edibles. Greta Cross, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025 Delwiche offers plenty of recipe variations for classics like chocolate chip cookies, pie crusts, brownies, icings, biscuits and beyond, with diagrams and photos to build understanding and, ideally, your dream dessert that’s tailored just to your liking. Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025 Succulent aromas of honeysuckle and violets, as well as blueberries, cinnamon, apples, toast and brownies. Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for brownie
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Noun
  • The Devils is a dark fantasy epic centering on a special force of monsters enlisted to save Europe from a scourge of flesh-eating elves.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
  • In this fiction, the Crusades were not waged against Moors, but against elves – a race said to devour the flesh of humans, among other atrocities that are neither confirmed nor denied by the end of the story.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Lisa’s Joker is part motivational speaker, part chaos goblin.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 May 2025
  • From its protrusible jaw to its ability to hunt in every environment, the goblin shark exemplifies adaptation to the extremes.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Half the art is superhuman sprites shrouded in fire and lasers; the other covers look like Grok was trained on an anime gooner algorithm.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2025
  • At the highest graphics settings, the sprites in the game were more crisp.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
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  • Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2022
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  • After some patter from the hype man, Greg Gutfeld came out and read MAGA-dad jokes off a teleprompter, and teed up his four guests: a comedian named Michael Loftus, the anarchist troll Michael Malice, the former MTV v.j. Kennedy, and Cobb, who wore a Chicago Blackhawks hockey jersey.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Misty Copeland shares essential advice from Prince, favorite dish to cook, self-care tips The attitude required dealing with critics: 'Great empathy for these people' Years of criticism has taught Zee not to absorb the negativity of online trolls.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 17 May 2025

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“Brownie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brownie. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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