monkey
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After he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Niederhoffer took a job as an assistant professor at University of California, Berkeley, during which time he kept a pet monkey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
When they handed the property over, it boasted emerald green walls, a rattan monkey chandelier, and banana-leaf wallpaper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Inspired by my late grandmother’s Southern funeral sandwiches, this savory monkey bread is pure crowd-pleaser territory.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
"He was your very normal, cheeky little monkey," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
The big monkey must have been telling the little monkeys that everything looked all right to him because here they came.
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
The charity, which was established in 1964, said it had already started the process of rehoming monkeys to selected sanctuaries and organisations, and that their welfare remained its "top priority".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“Self-Portrait With Monkeys” features the raven-haired artist unfazed by the presence of four spider monkeys — two touching her while the others peer from tropical foliage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The malignant Nurse conjures up a pack of monkeys, an octet of twirling black dresses, and a silver-painted dancer to seduce the Dyer’s Wife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
By refusing Jimbo’s offering of sour mash, you would have thought that I had committed the one sin that was unforgivable by all monkeys.
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
Grunt monkeyed his way up in half the time, delivering Addison to the top under one arm.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
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
He said monkeying with WebTA is rampant at the bureau.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
"I'm not for monkeying with Dodd-Frank," Feinstein said after the vote, recalling how close the financial system came to collapse in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2018
And I knew he wouldn’t want any and everybody monkeying with his car or learning how to drive on it.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
