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monkey

[muhng-kee] / ˈmʌŋ ki /




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Even the endings feel like save points, with Alice respawning at the start of each consecutive movie with another mutated monkey on her back.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

A ceramic dog and monkey sit on a golf cart inside the Dodger Stadium landscape team’s shed on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Look one way and there was a Bitcoin-themed art gallery featuring a 6-foot skull made of motherboards; look the other, and there was a massive inflatable monkey wearing an orange crown.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

There has been a string of recent high-profile arrests, including a July raid that rescued a leaf monkey, a gibbon and hundreds of turtles, as well as multiple interceptions at airports.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Rowdy wouldn’t have turned loose of a bumblebee any faster than he did that monkey.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Fossil sites in North Africa had produced remains of ancient monkeys from the Early Miocene, but researchers had never found definitive evidence of apes from the same period.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

“Anthropic has essentially put to the test the adage of whether monkeys and typewriters could, provided enough time, recreate Hamlet,” the lawsuit states.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The sanctuary, located in Burnfoot, opened in October 2019 and provides a safe space for animals, including brown bears, monkeys, wolves, and lynx.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Obviously a France of spirit and aspiration exists, a France that wouldn’t wish to remember itself, in the obnoxious phrase of a U.S. cartoon character, as a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

He must have been telling the little monkeys not to eat us completely up—to save a little for the next time—because they turned us loose and disappeared in the underbrush.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The timeline got complicated, screenwriters monkeyed with the story mechanics, directors brought new special effects into the battle to keep the action fresh.

From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2019

He and Hetfield purposefully monkeyed with the mix, he said.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018

Ingredients whose genes have been monkeyed with are avoided.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2017

What we’ll all soon learn, if we haven’t already, is that the presidency isn’t something to be monkeyed with.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2017

Grunt monkeyed his way up in half the time, delivering Addison to the top under one arm.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

This means that far from a one-and-done fix, monkeying with the payroll tax would have to be part of a broader discussion about taxation, eligibility and benefit levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

So $14 million in the past eight months, with all the monkeying around that we’ve done, suggests that next year it could be $40 million.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025

Before monkeying with it, he said, “let’s get the agency set up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2025

But Draper's "monkeying about" after the game resulted in him having to walk back to the hotel as Sherring "needed some space".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

“I don’t want you two monkeying around downtown. I’m cuttin’ up a watermelon, and we can have Ritz and cheddar for lunch.”

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth


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