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elf

[elf] / ɛlf /
NOUN
small, fairytale character
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Antonyms
WEAK


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Beauty’s ELF -3.66%decrease; red down pointing triangle guidance for the year disappointed Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Beauty ELF -0.39%decrease; red down pointing triangle tanked after the beauty company issued guidance for the year below Wall Street’s expectations, as uncertainty swirls around the American consumer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

So the federal government went to work pursuing ELF members with alacrity, heaping sentence-lengthening terrorism enhancements on members to the point that, by 2006, the group basically ceased to exist.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

At the time, investigators still didn’t know the extent of Ferguson’s involvement in the ELF.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

"Out of eleven wells," says gentle Dulness, "EILF or ELF QUELLEN, whence its name, Elbe for ELF."

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas




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