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as in demon
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 anomaly
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 villain
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 giant
something large of its kind
a monster of a sandwich that could easily feed two hearty eaters
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as in gigantic
unusually large
a monster truck competition
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Recent Examples of monster
Leo Barraclough, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
The monster could move around the stage, and other dancers acted as her tentacles.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
In his first full professional campaign, Holliday had a monster minor league season, climbing up the Orioles’ ladder and prospect lists at breakneck speed.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024
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Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn has to battle it out with the evil animal park owner, the Viscount, who is determined to own this rarest of creatures.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
The monster could move around the stage, and other dancers acted as her tentacles.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
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The Gunn brothers used to make monster movies as kids
The brothers began dabbling in film at an early age.
—Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
In his first full professional campaign, Holliday had a monster minor league season, climbing up the Orioles’ ladder and prospect lists at breakneck speed.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024
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The new bar follows the transformation of an angel into a demon (inspired by Gokan's life and professional journey from Angel’s Share in New York to his bars in Asia and now Europe).Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The first-seven-minutes clip though shows some entirely different characters and a man’s desperate attempt to try to pass off the demons pursuing him.Brian Welk, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
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Stablecoin issuers like Circle and Tether seem to overlook that today’s high-interest environment is an anomaly, and a sustainable business can’t be built on a foundation that’s likely to crumble when market conditions shift.Christian Catalini, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Freddy Gaudreau’s rough 2023-24 season might have been an anomaly.John Shipley, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
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Marlena’s John is an iconic hero, and unfailingly rescuing her from all matter of villains.Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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The film stars, of all people, Hugh Grant, who is said to have an amazing turn as a villain in the film.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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In Indiana one November, bowhunter Brent Ireland got a single cam picture of a double-drop giant.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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The strike, Boeing's first machinist walkout since 2008, follows a turbulent period for the aerospace giant.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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In Antarctica, sea ice surrounding the continent also buttresses gigantic ice sheets, slowing the flow of glacial ice into the ocean.Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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Invest in community colleges, where a gigantic proportion of American students are but where a lack of resources often thwarts their ambitions.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
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The Watergate grotesques form a small portion of the weird and sometimes wacky, but always carefully curated, world of Ellison.Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
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More amusingly, among the gargoyles and grotesques that dot the various towers are one in the form of a corrupt politician and another representing Darth Vader.Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
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There have been many occurrences of breast cancer in my family, and my mother had tested positive for the BRCA mutation.Clea Shearer, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2024
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The virus would also need to accrue certain specific mutations.Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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The Penguin's Falcone is every bit the misogynistic brute, but his actions are relegated to the off-screen imagination by being implied, rather than shown.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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The part originally played by Timothy Olyphant has been taken over by Adam Driver—a specialist in magnetic brutes—whose recent movie roles have tended to be titular titans of industry and/or guys with accents.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monster. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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