leprechaun
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He memorably dressed up as a leprechaun, another time as an FBI agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate ● May 30, 2024
These older family members of mine could paint vivid pictures as they spun yarns of leprechaun adventures.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
Think of the leprechaun of Ireland, the puckish forest-dwelling aluxe of Mexico, or the grisly krasue of Southeast Asia, a woman whose internal organs hang exposed from her neck down.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2023
Artemis’s main problem was one of location—how to locate a leprechaun.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Speaking of trillion-dollar leprechauns, you will hunt through all 545 pages in vain for those big “DOGE” savings you were promised.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
It is easy-breezy, light spirited — rainbows, leprechauns, good luck, good cheer — it is childlike in its commitment to being pure fun.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
Three years later came Crock of Gold, with its album cover featuring a painting by Shane MacGowan of leprechauns that resembled the demons that seemed to haunt him throughout his life.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
“They were just the little beings out in the outskirts of town that would make your life difficult,” Professor Stuart said, comparing them to leprechauns or elves in other traditions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
Instead of dancing, they launched themselves across the field and began throwing what seemed to be handfuls of fire at the leprechauns.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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