larker

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Noun
  • The only problem was that to train the monkey to do the next action, the trainer would kiss the monkey first.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The rapidly spreading virus killed the monkey within three days.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Saturday's talks in Rome between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the rogue regime’s failure to dismantle its illicit nuclear weapons program have raised pressing questions about whether Tehran will adhere to a new deal.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Sadly, for now, Murkowski is one of vanishingly few Republican politicians with the guts to speak up against the party’s rogue president — a brave, but lonely, voice in the wilderness.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The California state government has partnered with nonprofits and commercial fishermen to clear urchins and restore kelp.
    Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Read on for an exclusive excerpt from the prologue of The Secret Book Society. London, England June 1895 Clara Chambers, the Countess of Duxbury, entered her drawing room and considered the urchin who’d demanded to be seen at once.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • She’s been charged with home invasion burglary, two counts of assault, two counts of criminal mischief, terroristic threats and resisting arrest.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • He was arrested and charged with grand theft of construction equipment, criminal mischief over $1,000 and burglary of a structure with property damage, police said.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 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
  • And Dot — well, Dot keeps an imp in an old wine bottle.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Combining animation and live action, the film continues the adventures of the magical imp Pumuckl.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Larker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larker. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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