monster
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After snagging a pink-and-red monster plushie, she excitedly jumped up and down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"It's like a rocket, have we created a monster for next year? Perhaps. It proves the city can cope."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Here we understand that he was imprisoned for something he didn’t do. He may have done other things, but he says, ‘You turned me into this monster.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Spain's civil protection chief Virginia Barcones on Sunday said the country was battling a "monster" in the fire around Avila.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
This giant old monster of a pine tree, like hundreds of years old, so big it had a name—the Wolf Tree—went up like a match.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Canada has all but abandoned prescribed burning—deliberate, controlled fires that clear out the deadwood and undergrowth that turn ordinary fires into monsters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
A Japanese journalist coined the term cosplay -- combining costume and play -- in 1984 after seeing people dressed as monsters and aliens at a sci-fi convention in Los Angeles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The mobile app Pokémon Go, which is now celebrating its 10th anniversary, uses GPS and augmented reality to let players find and catch virtual monsters in real-world locations.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
One starry-eyed Minion, though, James, vows to mount a monster movie with real monsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Well, fool magic runs in my family, and my father used it to defeat a bunch of monsters and marry a princess.”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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