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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
Casey Clark, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
But there’s nonetheless something inherently satisfying about the classic monster tales and Whannell has enough of a handle on primal fears to keep Wolf Man entertaining.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2024
Keeping a lid on production allows Big Oil to reap monster profits at the expense of the driving public.
—Robert Weissman, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
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Grover Grover is a lively and enthusiastic blue monster who loves exploring and going on new adventures.
—Casey Clark, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
But there’s nonetheless something inherently satisfying about the classic monster tales and Whannell has enough of a handle on primal fears to keep Wolf Man entertaining.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
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Could Hurricane Helene impact Indiana? Tropical Storm Helene has been churning in the western Caribbean and could emerge into a potentially monster hurricane, warn forecasters.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2024
Keeping a lid on production allows Big Oil to reap monster profits at the expense of the driving public.
—Robert Weissman, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monster
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Audiard long had imagined an internal struggle within Emilia between man and woman, demon and angel.Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
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Off to Buffalo: Will the last demon exorcised from Empower Field please turn out the lights?Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2025
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In an interview with ABC News earlier on Monday, Southern California Edison's parent company CEO Pedro Pizarro said employees monitoring the lines remotely at the time saw no indications of any electrical anomalies that would typically cause sparking.Liz Baker, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
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Preliminary information indicates Edison equipment experienced an electrical anomaly one minute after the Hurst Fire reportedly started, according to the company.Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025
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Also tossed in are picturesque but gratuitous use of famous tourist landmarks as background, near-superheroic training montages, credible intimate character dynamics, a ruthless villain (Johan Heldenbergh as Vanaken) and action that in the home stretch goes absurdly over-the-top.Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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And though Young and (especially) the perpetrators of the massacre are clearly the villains of the piece, their past history at least partly explains their choices.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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Now, education technology giant PowerSchool has become the latest target, with records of millions of students and teachers stolen.Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
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The three media giants announced Venu Sports in early February of 2024.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2025
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There's a gigantic piece of pizza, a burger complete with lettuce and tomato slices and, of course, meatballs.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Tyson last fought a sanctioned fight in 2005 , losing a sixth-round TKO to gigantic Irishman Kevin McBride, a fighter of little renown beyond that win.Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
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White specks on the horizon grew to surround us with grotesques of ice.Blair Braverman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 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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If the mutations accumulate slowly, symptoms might not arrive until their 50s, 60s or beyond.Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
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With this new study, the research team was trying to determine if these outliers were a result of mutations caused by the fallout of the Chornobyl disaster.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
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Maliki is a divisive brute whom Iran supports to the hilt.Dov Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2014
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One million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monster. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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