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as in demons
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature both children insisted that their parents check under the bed for monsters every night
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as in anomalies
a person, thing, or event that is far from normal the gardener destroyed all of the monsters that mutated from his tomato plants
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as in villains
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person the guards at the concentration camps were monsters who enjoyed seeing their victims suffer
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as in giants
something large of its kind a monster of a sandwich that could easily feed two hearty eaters
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Recent Examples of monsters So many of my favorite filmmakers over the years have been exposed as monsters. —
Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026 No further films in the series are planned, though Universal did repurpose the name Dark Universe for an area of its Epic Universe theme park featuring the classic monsters. —Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026 The original Universal Monster movies are also quite tame by today’s standards, meaning that most of us have spent our lives seeing these monsters as family-friendly Halloween characters, not something to truly fear. —Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026 Season three ends with the reveal that even if the characters manage to kill one of the monsters, the monsters will find a way to come back to life. —Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026 Yet, the monsters in the group, such as Nvidia and Alphabet have gained nearly 9% and 12%, respectively, in April. —Fred Imbert, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026 The gameplay consists of Anne navigating small, maze-like environments while avoiding monsters. —Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026 Even hell doesn’t want those monsters. —Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026 Both were monsters on the boards and couldn’t be stopped at times inside. —Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026 No further films in the series are planned, though Universal did repurpose the name Dark Universe for an area of its Epic Universe theme park featuring the classic monsters. —Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026 The original Universal Monster movies are also quite tame by today’s standards, meaning that most of us have spent our lives seeing these monsters as family-friendly Halloween characters, not something to truly fear. —Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026 Season three ends with the reveal that even if the characters manage to kill one of the monsters, the monsters will find a way to come back to life. —Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026 Yet, the monsters in the group, such as Nvidia and Alphabet have gained nearly 9% and 12%, respectively, in April. —Fred Imbert, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026 The gameplay consists of Anne navigating small, maze-like environments while avoiding monsters. —Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026 Even hell doesn’t want those monsters. —Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026 Both were monsters on the boards and couldn’t be stopped at times inside. —Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
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Gregg had those demons inside his amazingly creative brain.— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
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Balor excised his own demons, while Mysterio is still haunted.— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
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On two of those flights, the Vulcan launcher suffered anomalies with one of its solid rocket boosters.— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
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The contradictions and anomalies that kept on coming only made her life more alluring.— Sara Wheeler, Big Think, 17 Apr. 2026
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There are flying cars held at bay by the power of telekenesis and Park teleporting, as the crew clumsily accept their new ‘hero’ roles and attempt to take on the villains threatening the peace of Haeseong City.— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
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The playoffs have delivered their share of Knicks villains over the years, from Reggie Miller to Joel Embiid to Tyrese Haliburton.— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
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For Cook, Apple's privacy-first approach to user data has long been a differentiator compared to other tech giants like Meta and Google, which specialize in letting brands target users with ads.— Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
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And that’s worked to Apple’s advantage as investors have shopped for an alternative to volatile tech giants scrambling to outspend one another on data centers and circular financing deals.— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
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Shrek and Fiona are now both full-time ogres, but Fiona’s parents (John Cleese and Julie Andrews) aren’t too thrilled, as a particularly tense family dinner scene makes clear.— Skyler Trepel September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Usually, these mistakes, called spontaneous mutations, don’t matter very much.— Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 15 Apr. 2026
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Protein language models, which are AI systems trained on millions of natural protein sequences, can quickly predict how mutations will change a protein’s behavior or design new proteins.— Stephen D. Turner, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
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That’s happened in several Mid Atlantic rivers, but in the absence of larger brutes like blues and flathead, channels will thrive and can break the 15-pound mark.— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
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In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
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Our days were spent beach combing on semi-secret islands with up-close views of whales, porpoises, and eagles.— Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
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That will give commercial crabbers using traditional vertical lines — the ones that can entangle migrating whales — a little less than two weeks to wrap up their seasons in San Francisco and Half Moon Bay.— Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Monsters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/monsters. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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