trolls

1. In Norse mythology, repulsive dwarfs who lived in caves or other hidden places. They would steal children and property but hated noise. The troll in the children's story “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” for example, lives under a bridge and is enraged when he hears the goats crossing the bridge.

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Ms. Ypi writes that she’s at the archives to “rescue” her grandmother “from the trolls.”

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Hired patent trolls create what economists call deadweight loss: economic value destroyed by conduct that suppresses output and investment.

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The mother of Jay Slater, who died after going missing in Tenerife last summer, has stepped up her campaign for a new law to tackle online trolls.

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The Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International has said.

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Autumn, Woo, and I turn to see a strange sight—a guy in a suit, with two trolls standing on either side of him.

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