monkey
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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
At the bottom, few public playgrounds these days feature seesaws or monkey bars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
At just six months old, the leaf monkey curled up inside DNP vet Thanawadee Phaichana's rubber-gloved hand is very small indeed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Looking at Grandpa, Mama said, “Papa, this is the silliest thing I ever heard of, an old codger like you, going to town to read monkey books.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
They draw on reporters’ own experiences, like the one about a criminal enterprise run by monkeys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Researchers from The Ohio State University studied wild sooty mangabey monkeys, whose feet do not have the same highly flexible ankles found in chimpanzees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Japanese macaques like this one - also known as snow monkeys - are about the size of a medium-sized dog once they reach adulthood.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Why, I figured that you’d have a sack full of monkeys by now. What happened? Couldn’t you find them?”
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
He said monkeying with WebTA is rampant at the bureau.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
He didn’t want anyone monkeying with the cash register while the cover was off.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
