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Listed as "captive-bred", it belongs to the world's rarest great ape species, with around 800 individuals remaining.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nicknamed Novita, the ape shown in footage released by a conservation group is among dozens that have been rescued from wildfires burning across parts of Sumatra and Borneo in recent months.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

A halfway house is a New York Times podcast whose moderators ape the shouty persona of comedian John Mulaney.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

An international team of researchers has identified a previously unknown fossil ape that lived about 17 to 18 million years ago during the Early Miocene.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

For a time the roads were endangered by a fantastic creature, half man and half ape, that a traveller to the West had captured and brought back to China in a cage.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Humans are highly social apes with big brains—and these things have eternally been in tension.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“We’re part of the same community,” said Fallon to Hilton as they compared apes on “The Tonight Show.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The critically endangered apes are found in the wild only in Indonesia and Malaysia.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Before this discovery, Early Miocene fossil sites in North Africa had produced remains of monkeys but no confirmed apes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

They were laughing hysterically, leaping from foot to foot and throwing their arms around like wild apes.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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

“I aped a city skyline,” says Cohen about the collection of screens, “with ‘buildings’ of different heights, to ape New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

They aped teacher’s snarling manner when they spoke to each other.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Some analysts see Greenland aping Iceland’s success, combining tourism with fishing and cheap energy to attract tech companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 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

And so European footwear pivoted into the wide, box-toed shoes - and obviously, the public responded by aping the regal style with a flourish.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

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

I realized that she was aping my grandmother.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou