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as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
the child insisted that he'd seen a sprite hiding in the garden
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as in apparition
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
told hair-raising stories of sprites and spectral ships
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In his statement, Hendrix said the sprites at the Biltmore are replicas of designs at Wright’s Midway Gardens project in Chicago, which was built in 1914 and demolished in 1929.
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Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
Red sprites, also known as red lightning, occur during some extremely intense thunderstorms.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Set in 1705 during the reign of Queen Anne, the series stars Louisa Harland (Derry Girls) as Nell Jackson, widowed and possessed of occasional supernatural skills whenever someone threatens her, courtesy of a fairy sprite named Billy Blind (Nick Mohammed).
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
On the Marvel side is the coolest 2D sprite ever made in a fighting game, and that’s Gambit.
—Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2025
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Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
Red sprites, also known as red lightning, occur during some extremely intense thunderstorms.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Set in 1705 during the reign of Queen Anne, the series stars Louisa Harland (Derry Girls) as Nell Jackson, widowed and possessed of occasional supernatural skills whenever someone threatens her, courtesy of a fairy sprite named Billy Blind (Nick Mohammed).
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
On the Marvel side is the coolest 2D sprite ever made in a fighting game, and that’s Gambit.
—Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprite
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The series, originally from Monumental Television for the BBC in the UK, follows a young couple inherit a huge castle, only to find one of them can communicate with the various apparitions from history who already live there.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
3 June 2025
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The listing appeared suddenly, like an apparition from the era when Yoshi’s reigned as the Bay Area’s premiere jazz venue.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Instead, his presence is more like a ghost (literally at times), and a wedge between these two sisters.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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Nicole Ari Parker in And Just Like That Season 3 Craig Blankenhorn—Max Carrie’s ghosts must have stayed behind at the old apartment.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
28 May 2025
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Lisa’s Joker is part motivational speaker, part chaos goblin.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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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
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Vodka enthusiasts looking for a high-quality spirit that also supports LGBTQ+ causes.—
Lela London,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Let this lunation guide you toward experiences that ignite your spirit!—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 June 2025
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Ray is an enigma and a mystery, a man who zips into town on a motorbike like a phantom and could just as easily evaporate at any minute.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
18 May 2025
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Season 4 continued to expand the paranormal world of Ghosts, with the funny phantoms developing new powers, the introduction of even more specters roaming the Woodstone grounds — and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), finally able to see the ghosts his wife, Sam (Rose McIver) is always speaking with.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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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
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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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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Sprite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprite. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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