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A halfway house is a New York Times podcast whose moderators ape the shouty persona of comedian John Mulaney.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Of course, AI can ape us, and create things based on our patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The fossils were discovered at Wadi Moghra in northern Egypt and provide the first definitive evidence of an ape from North Africa.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

This allowed them to estimate how different ape groups were related and when their evolutionary lineages separated.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

If you look at any species of primate — at every variety of monkey and ape — the larger their neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Photographs and videos widely shared online show the young apes sitting together on the forest floor and eating bananas, thousands of kilometres from the tropical rainforests where they belong.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Lar gibbons are small apes covered in blonde or dark brown fur, with a distinctive ring of white fur around their faces.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Their results indicate that Masripithecus was more closely related to living apes than any Early Miocene species currently known from East Africa.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Orangutans and gibbons, small apes, were being "increasingly trafficked into India" from Southeast Asia's rainforests, it added.

From Barron's

Our societies are built from the same building blocks as Neanderthal or chimpanzee societies, and the more we examine these building blocks—sensations, emotions, family ties—the less difference we find between us and other apes.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

In the 1960s, a primitive chatbot that mindlessly aped a therapist had people pouring their hearts out to it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

His misguided approach - often aped on the Accidentally Partridge social media account, which shares cringeworthy clips of public figures - is "provocative" but, Coogan hopes, "never mean-spirited."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

Eggers’ “Nosferatu” succeeds because the director’s alterations to Henrik Galeen’s original 1922 screenplay, aped from Stoker’s novel with a few tweaks, are minimal.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

It’s not the first time Meta has aped a competitor’s innovation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

Pascal, who speaks English, is "aped over Jodie Foster" and owns all her movies on videotape.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

At the risk of aping Tampa Bay hockey fans and chanting “USA! USA!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

So at the same time as worrying about their male classmates "bottling things up", girls are also feeling scared about how some boys and men - aping Manosphere behaviours - might act.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

The plan is to craft something “safe and fun” that will “bring joy” to its users, especially “women and gay people,” at a time when other social media executives are aping norms of reactionary ultramasculinity.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2025

Emails between Percoco and a consultant referred to the money as “ziti,” aping a trope from “The Sopranos.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023

Above their heads, the double-barrel-vaulted ceiling was painted deep blue, with golden stars aping the real heavens just beyond.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz