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What consequential life experiences have I missed, taunting my eyeballs, indulging this social media imp turned experimental pugilist as he bumbles around the ring with has-beens and never-weres?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

He works hard for his laughs, sometimes too hard, but he’s an endearing imp — an overwhelmed freelancer trying to survive the unforgiving gig economy of his age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

The juvenile insouciance of Blenkin’s trillionaire is one, a grinning imp who waves his bare feet around in the way of someone who means every offense.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

In performance, while his bandmates concentrated on their instruments, Mr. Suzuki shimmied around the stage like a psychedelic imp, often barefoot and shirtless, his face hidden by an undulating mane of long black hair.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

“Nothing the imp saw or heard could be harmful,” Grandpa clarified.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Plus, Matt Berry as a talking sword, and various imps, witches, dragons and goblins, an exploited race among whom revolution, or at least a demand for health care, may be stirring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2021

With a broad, cherubic face, dimpled chin, unruly hair and a charismatic presence described as “gnomelike,” Mr. Pollard excelled at playing imps, half-wits and outright weirdos.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2019

In addition to elves and dwarves and imps there are also trolls and munchkins and leprechauns and a million other short-statured mystical characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2018

He described a series of intercept capabilities named after Smurfs - the little blue imps of Belgian cartoon fame.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2015

A burst of darkness momentarily eclipsed the steady luminance of the lanterns, and suddenly, in the midst of where all the imps were focusing their attention, a new human-sized imp sprouted up.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

He specifically spoke about Hoggle’s “thought disorder,” a condition common among those with schizophrenia that can imped their ability to communicate.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

Thou hadst in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties lived unknown, Had not my verse extolled thy name, And with it imped the wings of Fame.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Possibly he shared his master's belief that "even the best translation is for mere necessity but an evil imped wing to fly withal, or a heavy stump leg of wood to go withal."

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross

"I have joined the wing, father, and I have imped the feathers; but I fear it will be Christmas ere she can fly again."

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

To the end that you may not faile of this worke of imping, you must principally take heed, not to ouer-cleaue the Stockes of your Trees.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by Lawson, William, fl. 1618