fairy tale

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In the end we see that this has been not a joke but a test, as in a fairy tale, in which the hero proves his mettle and gets his rewards: love and riches.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

By the time I understood this in the late ’90s, we were living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, and the fact carried the weight of a fairy tale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

"It's a bit like the Cinderella fairy tale," says Benjamin Koch from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at TU Wien.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

A Goldilocks economy, as the fairy tale goes, is not too fast and not too slow.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

Ivy thought that sounded magical—swimming the butterfly—like something out of a fairy tale.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake