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as in demon
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
both children insisted that their parents check under the bed for monsters every night
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as in anomaly
a person, thing, or event that is far from normal
the gardener destroyed all of the monsters that mutated from his tomato plants
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as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
the guards at the concentration camps were monsters who enjoyed seeing their victims suffer
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as in giant
something large of its kind
a monster of a sandwich that could easily feed two hearty eaters
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as in gigantic
unusually large
a monster truck competition
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Recent Examples of monster
Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2026
Noonan died Saturday on Valentine’s Day, according to Fred Dekker, director of The Monster Squad (1987), in which the actor played Frankenstein’s monster.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
Climate change and monster storms Hurricane Allen’s shocking winds in 1980, before a noticeable trend of increasingly intense hurricanes was observed, are an important reminder that climate change does not directly cause monster hurricanes.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Bad Bunny is a monster on streaming, and the project that anchored his halftime set is just over a year old.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2026
Noonan died Saturday on Valentine’s Day, according to Fred Dekker, director of The Monster Squad (1987), in which the actor played Frankenstein’s monster.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
But these are monster penalties that are not called consistently at all.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
Climate change and monster storms Hurricane Allen’s shocking winds in 1980, before a noticeable trend of increasingly intense hurricanes was observed, are an important reminder that climate change does not directly cause monster hurricanes.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monster
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Coach Brad Willis’ team responded to the setback by shaking off the loss plus the demons of a first-round exit in Division 1 last season.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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Mikaela Shiffrin can now leave her Olympics demons behind.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
18 Feb. 2026
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Environmental police have deployed side-scan sonar to try to gather data and detect anomalies on the ocean floor, officials said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Scientists subtract the temperature anomalies in the rest of the tropical Pacific from those in the region most important for El Niño.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Even the Dodgers, the cartoon villains of spending, kind of sort of have a limit.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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The case could set a precedent for holding social media companies responsible for dangerous design decisions, after years of tech giants fending off lawsuits under Section 230, the law that shields them from liability for user content.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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China’s tech giants are betting heavily on these versatile platforms.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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Lurking behind is the orange and white bulk of the Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, which sits unseen in this photo at the white tip of the gigantic launch vehicle.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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The Anterselva Biathlon Arena is a legit sporting stadium, with thousands of permanent seats, a gigantic video board, VIP seating areas and a vast network of tunnels connecting it all.—
Zack Pierce,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, compared with the realistically creased faces and hangdog stares of the Cubs, the Boston fans behind them are closer to grotesques, an inhuman crush of caricatures.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Phillips rose to prominence in the ‘90s for glossy, photorealistic paintings like Below that grappled with sexuality, beauty and the grotesque.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
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What’s more, radiation exposure can cause harmful mutations to the DNA in sperm—mutations that have the potential to be passed on to subsequent generations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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The researchers combed the data for mutations that may have caused the tumors to form and found that cancer-causing genes in cats are strikingly similar in number and variety to those in humans.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
19 Feb. 2026
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For much of his career, Skarsgård has gravitated toward characters who weaponize physical presence — Vikings, tech titans and mythic brutes whose power is immediately legible.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2026
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As usual, Lang plays the brute’s Heart of Darkness–esque descent into madness with gleeful relish.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monster. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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