changelings
- plural of changeling.
Example Sentences
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But nevertheless, Vadic also reveals that she and nine other changelings were experimented on by Starfleet as prisoners of war, as part of Project Proteus.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Worf references a “Deep Space Nine” story line, in which Starfleet nearly wiped out the changelings by engineering a virus to infect them during the Dominion War.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023
“The Changeling” by Victor LaValle uses as its inspiration the stories of changelings, false doubles left in place of human children who are stolen by fairies.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2020
At one point, Bella thinks, “O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.”
From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017
Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
