larker

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Noun
  • This season Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Michele Monaghan, Walter Goggins and Jason Isaac are among those meditating, scheming and watching the monkeys in Thailand.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The film follows Hal (Theo James) a reclusive stress case who desperately tries to reconnect with his teenage son while haunted by a wind-up monkey that incites a random (and ridiculous) death whenever the key in its back is turned.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • He’s gone fully rogue trying to hunt down this mob boss, even using her client to trick a different member of the gang into testifying for him.
    Ayan Artan, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • But soon afterward—and reportedly without clearing her plans with Netflix—Gascón went rogue.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Luckily, on one dive, I was accompanied by Stephanie Mutz, a commercial fisherman with an expertise in urchin harvesting.
    Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The foreign urchins also need play rooms, with free toys and games.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • The black rascal was giving something what-for, and that prompted a gobble only 200 yards from me, followed by another and another.
    Larry Dablemont, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Nelson was charged with explosives or incendiary devices use during felony, criminal mischief and criminal attempt to commit a Class 3 felony, authorities said.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • There’s something about these wordless intuitive bonds, full of mischief and love, that feel like magic.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 11 Mar. 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
  • Combining animation and live action, the film continues the adventures of the magical imp Pumuckl.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
  • But read two more and the skeptical imp within you awakens.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Larker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larker. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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