ape

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Younger ape fossils have been found across Africa, Asia, and Europe, but scientists continue to debate how these species were related and where their ancestors originated.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Only part of the lower jaw has been found, but it contains a combination of traits not known in any other ape from the same period.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

"Through strengthened domestic protection, climate-responsive planning, and global financial and technical assistance, we can still prevent the first modern extinction of a great ape species."

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

“Now, Brandon,” said Hugh’s wife weakly to her little son, who had run into the kitchen and was attempting to swing from his mother’s arms like an ape.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Lar gibbons are small apes native to south-east Asia whose international trade is tightly controlled.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Masripithecus shows that apes were already living in North Africa during the Early Miocene.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

More tolerant groups showed higher levels of reassuring touch, including what researchers described as "reassurance trains", in which multiple apes embraced one another in succession.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

They say similar experiments should eventually be carried out with less enculturated apes, ideally wild populations.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

They were way less famous than the other great apes, the chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, even though a recent study showed they were our closest relatives, sharing over 98.7 percent of our DNA.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

“I aped a city skyline,” says Cohen about the collection of screens, “with ‘buildings’ of different heights, to ape New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

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

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

He certainly wouldn't want to give the impression he's aping their style or strategy.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

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

I realized that she was aping my grandmother.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou