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as in addiction
a physiological need for certain drugs
I've got this monkey on my back, and going to detox is the only way to get it off
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as in devil
an appealingly mischievous person
come back here, you little monkey!
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Recent Examples of monkey
Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2024
Now, there is a record, more broadly speaking, of the Romans keeping monkeys as pets.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Michael Haag, Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
With supply running low toward the end of most evenings, savvy bun fanatics don’t monkey around, routinely calling ahead to request an extra skillet of rolls set aside just for them. Ettan.
—Valerie Demicheva and Flora Chang, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2021
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Confronting those questions may be more terrifying than encountering Oz’s flying monkeys.
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The Bears will be prepared for the environment, but getting that Morgantown monkey off their back will take a lot more than imagined.
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Buzzy film projects Reflecting today’s troubled times, projects at the co-financing markets dealt with harsh human stories about migration, war, bullying, climate crisis and screen addiction but most were told with a playfulness and even humor in order to reach a wide audience.Annika Pham, Variety, 23 Nov. 2024
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Among the decisions ahead that could lose Lurie a popularity contest: tackling a budget crisis that could require deep cuts across departments; stabilizing a financially unstable city schools system; and curbing an addiction crisis that resulted in more than 800 fatal overdoses last year.Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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The current top predator in Tasmania, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), is already facing severe population declines due to disease.Scott Travers, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) has been eating away at the population of Tasmanian devils and re-introducing the thylacine might not do the devil any favors.Scott Travers, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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On its app homepage, JD has begun aping Pinduoduo by emphasizing discounts.Lavender Au, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2024
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Above all, those kids who come from the suburbs didn’t ape the Americans but chose their own narrative path, going much higher in quality.Marcello Junior Dino, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2024
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Reynolds thrived in front of a live studio audience, playing a college-age rascal who was more interested in messing with his friends and pursuing harebrained schemes than deciding on a major.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
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The druid Merlin rears his ugly head, and is far from the affable rascal of T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, though the two books are both attempts to update Arthur’s legend for a contemporary audience.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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But unlike his dad, a larger-than-life figure who once hosted Saturday Night Live and was parodied on Seinfeld, Hal has stayed pretty quiet.Justin Birnbaum, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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One, which was later parodied in a famous Chappelle’s Show skit, required the artists to walk more than five miles to fetch him cheesecake from a Brooklyn restaurant.Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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Players take on the role of Skif, who becomes a stalker after his home in Ukraine is destroyed by a rogue anomaly.Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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In 2016, seven electors went rogue—the most since 1972, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.Solcyré Burga, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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In the new study, the team mimicked a sewer environment under extreme conditions in a lab and rapidly sped up the fatberg formation process over 30 days.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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These videos mimic content from U.S. government agencies and more than 50 news organizations, including the BBC, France 24, and Fox News.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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There was no meeting between Charli and Maya Rudolph, assuring the latter that Kamala Harris is still brat.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
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Sheikh does a fine job of essaying the role of a typical rich brat who is conscious of his image but also has anger issues.Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Monkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monkey. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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