larker

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Noun
  • One photo circulated online of the incident showed a monkey climbing up a wall, while two others were near trash piles, per News12.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • With his teammates crowding around him in celebration, the veteran mimed the old monkey-of-my-back motion after his first goal as a Bruin.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While en route, a rogue AI called PAL (Olivia Colman) commanders an army of robots to launch a worldwide rebellion against humanity.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Look out for these signs that your face products have gone rogue.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Wilford Brimley, Glenn Close and an urchin in a newsboy’s cap look on and the music begins to swell, Roy Hobbs sends that last pitch screaming into the rightfield lights—which triggers a chain reaction of cinematic explosions.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Yet, it has also been found that some of the harms of urchin population growth can be lessened when sections of ocean are protected.
    Rebecca Vega Thurber, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And Eli was, at times, a bit of a rascal.
    David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In the process of the deal going bad, Vince presumably kills a man with his car, but since it’s never mentioned again during the course of the series, he’s allowed to be treated as a lovable rascal.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The electric version starts the same, but that plaintive wail sounds more like a call to mischief.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • When a mysterious prankster befalls the town of Middlesburg, 13-year-old Frances McCausland (Erin Chambers) gets blamed for the mischief.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is a video cutup that has frequented social media over the last year featuring all of Edwards’ missed shots at the end of close games.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • It’s believed that the 13th-century castle is haunted by a magical imp who frequently visits the Markomanka and Hlíza, or black, towers.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Tim Burton's film explores the border between life and the afterlife with some of the best in the biz, from Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin’s wholesome (and dead) homeowners to Winona Ryder's angsty teen to her ridiculous mother (Catherine O'Hara) to the imp with a limp (Michael Keaton).
    Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Larker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larker. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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