gorilla
Example Sentences
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The Toronto Zoo wants visitors to stop sharing videos with its curious and impressionable gorillas.
From Washington Times
Eight years ago, Google disabled its A.I. program’s ability to let people search for gorillas and monkeys through its Photos app because the algorithm was incorrectly sorting Black people into those categories.
From New York Times
“Trump is the 800-pound gorilla in the Republican primary. He has taken a lot of shots and he is still beating his chest in the forest.”
From Washington Times
Ugandan officials said the army and the police were pursuing the militants who attacked the school toward the Virunga National Park, a thick forest that is home to endangered mountain gorillas.
From New York Times
Other leading contenders are apes and “Old World primates” — macaques, baboons, gorillas and chimpanzees — whose genetic similarity to humans makes them susceptible to infection, and whose exposure to humans around the world is substantial.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
