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goblin

[gob-lin] / ˈgɒb lɪn /


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It’s like, wait, why not go full goblin mode?

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

“Because ‘helpful minion in a power suit’ was taken, so I evolved into goblin mode,” came the reply, according to another post.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The movie opens with her reciting lines from a story that casts her as a brave royal determined to reclaim a baby from a goblin king.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

It is the fourth consecutive year that the public have played a part in picking Oxford's word of the year, after an inaugural public vote in 2022 saw "goblin mode" prevail.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

So I told him the mission: When they were digging the king’s new wading pool, they found some old, buried goblin treasure—a giant gemstone carved with some kind of a story on it.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin




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