ape

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

It also appears to have differed substantially from ape species of a similar age found in East Africa.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

The experts studied chimpanzees and bonobos living at two great ape sanctuaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Laughter, however, is evolutionarily much older than speech and remains common to every living great ape, making it a rare opportunity to study how vocal communication evolved.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

The fisherman knew Otto was an ape, not a monkey.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

The researchers expect that additional fieldwork in North Africa and the Middle East will uncover more fossils that clarify how modern apes originated and began to diversify.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Its presence suggests that apes were already diversifying in this area before land connections opened the way for them to spread into Europe and Asia.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

More tolerant groups showed higher levels of reassuring touch, including what researchers described as "reassurance trains", in which multiple apes embraced one another in succession.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

We passed birds, bears, apes, monkeys, ungulates, the terrarium house, the rhinos, the elephants, the giraffes.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

She pushed her doll closer, so that Mrs. Fanning aped a surprised, cross-eyed look.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

So at the same time as worrying about their male classmates "bottling things up", girls are also feeling scared about how some boys and men - aping Manosphere behaviours - might act.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Though Hale’s crude aping of Harold Lloyd is disappointing, the rest of the cast acquit themselves admirably—no one more so than La Plante as the sympathetic heroine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

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

Emails between Percoco and a consultant referred to the money as “ziti,” aping a trope from “The Sopranos.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023

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