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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

At the bottom, few public playgrounds these days feature seesaws or monkey bars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

To have a monkey laugh at me was bad enough; but to have a girl laugh at me, even though it was my little sister, was a little too much.

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

Detailed observations and measurements showed that the monkeys can nevertheless bend parts of their feet enough to climb narrow vertical tree trunks while seeking food, hiding or finding places to sleep.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Wild Futures said the sanctuary began when it started rescuing woolly monkeys from the pet trade.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Wooden panels carved by the Indonesian Mentawai people in the first half of the 20th century are animated by playful monkeys that recall the dreamy animals of Henri Rousseau.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

I held my breath and watched to see what the monkeys would do.

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

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

Quick to step in and show his ambition, John volunteered to handle it himself and quickly monkeyed up the mast to fix it.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 2, 2015

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

Before monkeying with it, he said, “let’s get the agency set up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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 didn’t want anyone monkeying with the cash register while the cover was off.

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden




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