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ape

[eyp] / eɪp /


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Of course, AI can ape us, and create things based on our patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Only part of the lower jaw has been found, but it contains a combination of traits not known in any other ape from the same period.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

According to the researchers, this growing ability to control vocal timing likely developed gradually over the course of great ape evolution.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

"Through strengthened domestic protection, climate-responsive planning, and global financial and technical assistance, we can still prevent the first modern extinction of a great ape species."

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

I felt like nothing more than a suffering ape.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Lar gibbons are small apes covered in blonde or dark brown fur, with a distinctive ring of white fur around their faces.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

They compared anatomical traits from living and extinct apes, DNA from living species, and the geological ages of known fossils.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

That absence led many researchers to conclude that apes and their close relatives were largely restricted to areas farther south in Africa at the time.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

The apes were observed during the five minutes before the peanuts arrived, when they knew food was coming.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

All the outside portion of the monkey house was closed, so we went inside, and it was obvious that even in the winter those apes desperately need deodorant pads.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

In the 1960s, a primitive chatbot that mindlessly aped a therapist had people pouring their hearts out to it.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 29, 2025

His misguided approach - often aped on the Accidentally Partridge social media account, which shares cringeworthy clips of public figures - is "provocative" but, Coogan hopes, "never mean-spirited."

From BBC Sep. 30, 2025

Eggers’ “Nosferatu” succeeds because the director’s alterations to Henrik Galeen’s original 1922 screenplay, aped from Stoker’s novel with a few tweaks, are minimal.

From Salon Dec. 24, 2024

Global stocks in Asia and Europe aped at least some of that bounce overnight, but Wall St futures ticked back a touch ahead of Tuesday's opening bell.

From Reuters Oct. 17, 2023

Pascal, who speaks English, is "aped over Jodie Foster" and owns all her movies on videotape.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

At the risk of aping Tampa Bay hockey fans and chanting “USA! USA!”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

The plan is to craft something “safe and fun” that will “bring joy” to its users, especially “women and gay people,” at a time when other social media executives are aping norms of reactionary ultramasculinity.

From Slate Feb. 11, 2025

He certainly wouldn't want to give the impression he's aping their style or strategy.

From BBC Dec. 7, 2024

This enrages Roy, who pushes over the podium and storms offstage with the other Roy Tillmans following him, aping his every gesture and statement.

From Salon Jan. 3, 2024

It is only as I do it that I realize who I am aping, whose face frightened me into wanting it for my own.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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