1
as in monkeys
an appealingly mischievous person
scooped up the little imp and took him to bed
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2
as in demons
an evil spirit
a story about a crumbling mansion infested with a brood of imps
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Noun
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Fieldwork in Borneo offered groundbreaking insights into the behaviors of human blood-feeding mosquitoes versus those that prefer to feed on monkeys, Walton said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
11 Mar. 2026 -
The Broward County Commission has shot down a proposal that would have cleared the way for a property owner to put up warehouses on and near environmentally sensitive land, some of which has been home to a colony of African vervet monkeys since the late 1940s.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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What personal demons will impede the hunt for a killer?—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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Her children are battling their own demons.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2026
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Other propaganda compared Native people to buffalo, cats, dogs, and devils.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
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There are sounds and shadows in the forest; the Devil, or devils, may be walking the earth.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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There are ghosts lingering in the story.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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Good, bad or meh, any movie, painting, song that strikes you on some gut level, for whatever reason, drags behind it the ghosts of ourselves, the past, future and present.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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This also marks the first time players can become ghouls themselves in the mainline story.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2026
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Now working as a stocker, Ash accidentally unleashes undead ghouls after reading from the Necronomicon, forcing him to take up his chainsaw yet again to save humanity from the Deadites.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Feb. 2026
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And all the vampires that Buffy buried in the show’s 2003 series finale, when the Hellmouth collapsed in on itself, taking Sunnydale down with it, have been awakened.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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Her character inherited the mission of destroying vampires and other demons from her town of Sunnydale, which was built on a gateway to the realm of the demons.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Imps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imps. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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