pixie
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Favorites by Diana Ross and Beyoncé are held up to the roar of the crowd before pixie dust is released from the musical’s original Broadway cast album.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Cardi B sported a range of different hairstyles for her court appearances this week, including a black pixie cut one day and long blonde locks the next.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
For Knox, freedom has meant accepting a mantle that her young, manic pixie self could never have envisioned.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
And somehow — despite all the worrying, and yes, my mom worried a lot — there was an idea that things would work out in the end, no pixie dust needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
A pixie flew in my face, a blur of pink hair and translucent wings.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Dominic: It’s a little like when Professor Lockhart released that swarm of Cornish pixies in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”: They’re everywhere and constantly in your face.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
The work is dizzying, requiring you to constantly look down at your feet and then back at the trees, straining to find creatures that feel as mythical as pixies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2022
Jack teams up with a team of elves, fairies, pixies and sprites to infiltrate the bowels of the wicked great tree of life for a final confrontation with the devilish Lord.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2019
So I stayed awake thinking about my destiny, and when I got tired of that, I cursed pixies and gnomes, but mostly pixies.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
