monkey
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When they handed the property over, it boasted emerald green walls, a rattan monkey chandelier, and banana-leaf wallpaper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
A young monkey has managed to get out of a wildlife park that was at the centre of a similar monkey escape two years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Yet, Fire Island as a concept produces nothing more than a toy monkey clanging its cymbals in my brain.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
The Halos have gone to halo, the Big A is now the Big L and, somewhere, a rally monkey weeps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
I didn’t have to worry about the big monkey jumping on us.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
In January 2024, another Japanese macaque went on the run for more than five days after it fled the park, apparently after a fight with other male monkeys.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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
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
“Aw, Daisy,” I said, “didn’t anything happen to us. We just had a little fight with those monkeys and they bit us a few times. That’s all.”
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
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
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
Nevertheless, the BOG passed a resolution Jan. 17 unanimously calling on the legislature to quit monkeying around and pass a budget, for Pete’s sake.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
She couldn’t have some dummy monkeying with her looms.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
