kelpie

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Recent Examples of kelpie Zinna, a kelpie mix, was found in her crate inside the home. Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025 Arakawa had brought the kelpie mix named Zinna home from a veterinary hospital on Feb. 9 after a procedure, Mendoza said. Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025 Zinna, a 12-year-old Australian kelpie mix, likely died of dehydration and starvation, according to a New Mexico Department of Agriculture veterinary lab report. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025 The kelpie mix was found in a crate, while the couple's other two surviving dogs had access to a doggy door. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 But the dead dog is now believed to be their Australian kelpie mix, Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility which is involved in the surviving dogs’ care, said to The Associated Press. Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025 One of the couple's three dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, was also found dead in a crate in a bathroom closet near Arakawa, while two other dogs survived. arkansasonline.com, 9 Mar. 2025 Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's dog Zinna, a kelpie mix, was also found dead in the couple's home on February 26. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025 Authorities are also awaiting necropsy results to determine how the couple’s kelpie mix died. Dalia Faheid, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kelpie
Noun
  • What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
    Huntley Woods, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Kids consider costumes ranging from spooky goblins to little angels, and parents begin considering how to ration the candy collected after a long night of trick-or-treating.
    Sen. Dan Hall, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
  • This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • That’s in addition to the strange creatures that roam the countryside such as faeries and dragon.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Kelsey recently began selling her wreath attachments — such as big-eyed felt bunnies for Easter, and elves and snowmen for Christmas — in her Etsy store, Peppermint Sue’s Perfections.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Past racial tension between elves and humans is all but ignored in the plot.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Wear green and watch leprechauns and other merrymakers walk by in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
    John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In the United States, March 17 is typically associated with large parties and parades, green beer, Irish food and drink, and motifs like shamrocks, leprechauns, and pots of gold.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • If nothing else, at least this pixie cut means we’re bound to see Emma don even more temporary hair looks.
    Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Fortunately, the soft pixie is, by nature, a versatile look.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • First, advent calendars; then gnomes; then the tree; and then Christmas itself.
    Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Sign up for Target Circle More:Target has up to 65% off artificial Christmas trees, gnome decor, ornaments and more 9.
    Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Created via motion-capture performances, puppets and voice acting, these haphazard CGI troll wannabes seem supremely out of place in a movie full of humans and one chatty mirror.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The next advantage logically follows from the previous one—minimizing the risks of theft and exhausting litigation with competitors and IP infringers (for example, pirates or patent trolls), which could arise in the event of an incomplete legislative framework.
    Olena Orliuk, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Kelpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kelpie. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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