monkey
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Yet, Fire Island as a concept produces nothing more than a toy monkey clanging its cymbals in my brain.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Another famous performer didn’t have to be on set at all: Martin Scorsese, who voices a fast-talking four-armed digital fellow who looks like a monkey and works in a food cart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The zoo added that it was considering a full ban on filming around the monkey enclosure and was putting requests to film from YouTubers temporarily on hold.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Plush toy versions of his cats and monkey characters sit on recently upholstered matte orange, cream and red booths.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
As I stood there holding onto my net and watching that monkey throw a tantrum, I figured out what it was that he was trying to tell me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Before this discovery, Early Miocene fossil sites in North Africa had produced remains of monkeys but no confirmed apes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Self-Portrait With Monkeys” features the raven-haired artist unfazed by the presence of four spider monkeys — two touching her while the others peer from tropical foliage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The malignant Nurse conjures up a pack of monkeys, an octet of twirling black dresses, and a silver-painted dancer to seduce the Dyer’s Wife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The experimental jab has been tested in monkeys where it rapidly trained the immune system and gave close to 100% protection.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Sitting on limbs, here and there, were the monkeys.
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
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
Thankfully there has been no monkeying around with the formidably tall gâteau Basque, which is flavored with rum and served with a sparkling orange puddle of Cara Cara marmalade.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
She couldn’t have some dummy monkeying with her looms.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
