monkey
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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
Every type of artillery had a nickname—toad, monkey, bee—as did every piece of equipment and every type of transportation, and sometimes the French slang terms were different entirely from the English ones.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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“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
"I saw chickens, some wolves and some monkeys and then the bears which were definitely my favourite."
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
They draw on reporters’ own experiences, like the one about a criminal enterprise run by monkeys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
It pays for observations of 73 species, including birds, monkeys, wild cats and deer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
“You can’t hunt monkeys on an empty stomach,” Mama said.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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
The thread began on a day two hundred and fifty years ago, when the biology gods, for their own amusement, monkeyed with a gene on a baby’s fifth chromosome.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
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
So despite all this multiverse monkeying, they managed to raise the dramatic stakes for Peter going forward, and I’m here for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
She couldn’t have some dummy monkeying with her looms.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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