pixie
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A highlight: watching Tinkerbell sprinkle pixie dust on his infant twins during an evening parade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Cardi B sported a range of different hairstyles for her court appearances this week, including a black pixie cut one day and long blonde locks the next.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
For Knox, freedom has meant accepting a mantle that her young, manic pixie self could never have envisioned.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
Musk’s association with his companies is like market pixie dust, which is why Tesla’s board of directors has bent over backwards to give him money he doesn’t need in an effort to keep him happy.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
The other girl had a dark pixie cut growing out, a single braid plaited next to her ear.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Dominic: It’s a little like when Professor Lockhart released that swarm of Cornish pixies in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”: They’re everywhere and constantly in your face.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
The Moors are a wondrous, lush world bursting with glowing flowers, fairies, ogres, pixies and talking tree giants.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2019
And the 10-episode first season does spoof Disney, from “Lady and the Tramp” to street-wise Peter Pan-esque fairies — more swaggering TinkerBallers than Tinkerbell — who soar like gritty pixies over the castle of Dreamland.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
Tears ran down my cheeks and the pixies swarmed on my face.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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