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changeling

[cheynj-ling] / ˈtʃeɪndʒ lɪŋ /


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That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2023

I’m sure there’s no strategic advantage to examining a superior changeling ship’s technology when many of them have taken over Starfleet, but we digress.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2023

A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine".

From BBC Apr. 15, 2022

A deliciously twisty spin on a changeling story, Cuckoo Song is aimed at young readers.

From The Guardian Oct. 31, 2019

It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The Borg and the changelings came to an agreement in which the changelings would be the Borg’s vehicle to carry out some villainous plan to help them procreate.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2023

They would have had good reason to link up with changelings after what happened in “Deep Space Nine.”

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2023

“The Changeling” by Victor LaValle uses as its inspiration the stories of changelings, false doubles left in place of human children who are stolen by fairies.

From Washington Post Jun. 16, 2020

O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.

From The New Yorker May 1, 2017

Little human changelings, raised in Faerie, but not educated with the Gentry as we are.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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