monkey

The more their value relies on psychological anchors, the greater the chance of them making a monkey out of you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

The big monkey must have understood what I said.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“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

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

Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Humans are apes, but the new findings suggest that an ancestor with feet resembling those of monkeys might still have been capable of climbing in ways comparable to modern apes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

I told Grandpa everything that had happened from the time I jerked the blue ring on the net until the monkeys got away.

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

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