larker

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Noun
  • Along the Campuhan Ridge Walk, golden light spills across rice paddies like stairways—while mischievous monkeys chatter in the Sacred Forest Sanctuary—swinging past gnarled banyan roots and ancient statues of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Intel saga The monkey-wrench, as usual, is the president.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This prevents many attacks that use lookalike domain names or hacks such as DNS cache poisoning to create rogue sites masquerading as the real, trusted ones.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Controls prevent agents from going rogue.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • According to the team, an increase in the presence of sunflower sea stars, either natural or artificial, may help kelp forests by deterring urchins, without requiring divers manually remove urchins.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2025
  • Piss off the street urchins by giving them your phone!
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • The former child actors have grown up since their go-kart derby days on-screen — some have even welcomed their own little rascals off-screen.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Something tells me those wary rascals spotted us and gave us the slip.
    Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • One activist told a local news station that he was warned by Florida Highway Patrol troopers that he could be arrested and charged with criminal mischief if caught replacing the rainbow art again.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Spiker was arrested on charges including wanton endangerment and criminal mischief, WKBO reported.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.
    A.A. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
Noun
  • The mushroom’s healing properties also lead to hallucinations, often involving mysterious white imps, who should be adorable and instead come across as menacing little ghouls.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • And Dot — well, Dot keeps an imp in an old wine bottle.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Larker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larker. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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