monkey with
Example Sentences
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"When he came on board... he didn't really monkey with the script too much," Tracy said.
From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026
They also isolated two antibodies from rhesus macaques -- a species of monkey with immune systems like humans' -- who previously had received a vaccine regimen designed to generate fusion peptide-directed antibodies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
In previous attempts, scientists have struggled to successfully incorporate injected stem cells into a monkey, with less than 5 percent of the final organism grown from donor cells.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023
The Orange City Police Department asked residents Wednesday to report any sightings to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, and above all not to monkey with the monkey.
From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023
He was a monkey with long golden fur, and if there was an expression in his black eyes, it was unfathomable.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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