monkey (around)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monkey (around)
Verb
  • Running or horsing around with sparklers can also cause injuries and burns when users trip and fall.
    Justin Laube, EverydayHealth.com, 2 July 2025
  • Heath Ryan, who represented Australia in dressage at the 2008 Olympics, can be seen in the video – which the rider said is about two years old – hitting a horse around 40 times.
    Matias Grez, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • He's played Dante Falconeri on the soap since 2009 and has appeared in over 1,600 episodes as the mob boss.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Betts made a Gold Glove finalist-worthy play for the first out – ranging into the hole to make a backhand play then a jump throw to first.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gisin hopes that by fooling around with measurements of these more exotic states, physicists will come to better understand the role of measurement in general.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Those have come from two players: Adrian Morejon of the San Diego Padres, who throws an odd knuckleball-changeup hybrid about 1 percent of the time, and Jonah Bride of the Minnesota Twins, an infielder fooling around with the knuckler in blowouts.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • The boat therefore needed metal or plastic cages installed around the engines, so that the diver wouldn’t get accidentally cut up by their blades — and finding a boat and then the right cages fit onto the boat would take time.
    Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Techniques like this have been around for some time, but Micro-C uses an enzyme that can cut up DNA more finely than before.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That journey resulted in plenty of dishes that show off the bold flavors of the region.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Bar Italia are definitely not shy about showing off their moody rock influences — a little Slowdive, a lot of the Cure, plenty of the Velvets and Spacemen 3 and Sonic Youth.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Orion Nebula Those viewing from a dark sky location may also notice a blurry patch of light hanging about 5 degrees below Orion's belt.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The student was found hanging about 50 feet up in a tree with the open chute, Metro Nashville Police Department said on X Saturday.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Monkey (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monkey%20%28around%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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