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Recent Examples of nixie
This full function clock created by electronico is crafted from vintage nixie tubes.
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Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nixie
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The series centers around Timmy Turner, a miserable 10-year-old whose life improves significantly after he is given two fairy godparents named Wanda and Cosmo.—
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The toy projects an AI hologram companion that resembles a dragon or fairy.—
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On set, however, managing scenes that required baby Toby to cry was a delicate process – one made possible by actress Shari Weiser, who controlled the goblin Hoggle from inside a suit.—
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The kallikantzaroi are a group of blind, black goblins who live underground during most of the year sawing at the world tree – a motif throughout various folklores that connects the heavens to the Earth.—
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The reindeer team, the elf team — everyone will be there.—
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Jenkins dressed as Santa Claus at community events and the 6-feet-3-inch, 145-pound Bledsoe as an elf.—
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The trows might steal you away and leave a changeling in your place.—
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Like a changeling—a motif that recurs throughout the novel—the old narrator has been taken and replaced by someone new.—
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The Royal Russian Midget Troupe was a group of 20 little people who performed throughout Germany, Japan and Russia before coming to the United States in 1932.—
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Fernandez was raised in Pittsburgh by adoptive parents, also little people, who’d met at an annual meeting of Little People of America.—
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The internet has always been a chaotic place where trolls can seize outsize power.—
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Good morning to everyone except for the lowest forms of trolls, sick people and outside forces attempting to disrupt our newsletter.—
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And thank the faeries for that.—
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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.—
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The stop-motion Harrison has friendly interactions with gnomes, a Venus flytrap, a distinguished-looking oak tree, and even a sentient being who lives in a cave.—
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Included are dazzling light displays, live music and enchanting gnome houses.—
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“Nixie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nixie. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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