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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

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

“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

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

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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