creature

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Recent Examples of creature The eerie glow earns these nocturnal mammals a spot on the growing list of unexpectedly radiant creatures. Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025 In Kitchen's video of the monkeys, the moment sent her into a fit of laughter, especially when one of the creatures landed pretty close to her kayak. Saleen Martin, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025 So longtime fans may be understandably disappointed that many of these memorable undersea creatures see limited screen time, elbowed aside in favor of the nefarious ghost pirate the Flying Dutchman and his ghoulish crew. Justin Lowe, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025 But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for creature
Recent Examples of Synonyms for creature
Noun
  • The plan worked, and within hours, the animals were seen disappearing into the dark water, and emerging further down the line, to breathe from the holes the volunteers had placed in the ice above.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • While wild game roadkill are usually allowed to be picked up and taken home to eat in many parts of the country, some animals accidentally killed by a motor vehicle first require state notification, a license and other steps.
    Stuart Dyos, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though the serial killer in each installment of Scream is always revealed to be a different person, the phone voice has remained consistent since Jackson, now 65, took on the job back in 1996.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The person didn’t respond to further questions, and phone calls to two numbers associated with the email address went unanswered.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As previously reported by PEOPLE, the two men were arrested after the Paris Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) and the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Goods (OCBC) led an investigation into the robbery on Saturday, according to French outlets Le Parisien and Paris Match.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That’s especially problematic for aging science given that men and women age differently.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Forrest’s 2013 memoir Running with Monsters, the Celebrity Rehab star shared a detailed account of the final moments of Phoenix’s life.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • That’s just the reality of life at Real Madrid, and the main reason why arguably the most glamorous coaching job in club football is also one of the most difficult to succeed in.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The idea of what a tough guy is is a little bit romanticized in the archetype of Clint Eastwood – just being really stoic and not saying a lot.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • People who know him as a wisecracking guy who was into fireworks or whatever have a tendency to dismiss him as somebody too male, too aggressive, too whatever.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By the mid-2020s, NASA’s Artemis program intends to return humans to the Moon.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • However, having a human in the loop will be important to ensure that critical, high-value transactions initiated by autonomous agents on behalf of a person are reviewed and verified by that person.
    Matt Renner, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Creature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creature. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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