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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
CBS News,
25 June 2026
As Ditto, players have to rebuild cities and attract other pocket monsters to live in them.
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Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Jan. 2026
The Athletic's Jim Bowden recently predicted the Blue Jays would re-sign Bichette on a monster seven-year, $189 million deal this winter.
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Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2025
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Dansby Swanson had a go-ahead RBI triple and four RBIs to cap a monster doubleheader performance and help the Chicago Cubs sweep the reeling New York Mets with a 10-5 victory Wednesday night.
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CBS News,
25 June 2026
As Ditto, players have to rebuild cities and attract other pocket monsters to live in them.
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Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Adjective
American Airlines is allowing customers travelling to, through and from Charlotte to change their flight plans with no fee this weekend ahead of a potentially monster snowstorm for the Charlotte region and elsewhere.
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Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Jan. 2026
The Athletic's Jim Bowden recently predicted the Blue Jays would re-sign Bichette on a monster seven-year, $189 million deal this winter.
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Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monster
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There are highs and lows, angels and demons.
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Davion Mitchell is a defensive demon.
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In addition to handling testing operations, the robot continuously monitors wiring harness connections and reports anomalies in real time, helping reduce defects.
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Artificial intelligence can pick up on tiny anomalies based on the thousands of engines it’s seen before.
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The immigrant-threat frame offers a quicker villain and a simpler solution to persistent social problems such as violent crime.
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The new production will follow Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo from their comic book origins to becoming global pop culture icons, battling familiar villains along the way.
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Through a series of measures starting in 2022, Washington has cut off China’s access to the cutting-edge GPUs, throttling Chinese companies’ efforts in competing for the top AI models with US tech giants.
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Some plan to do so especially using solar and nuclear, including tech giants Amazon and Google.
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While running your air conditioner is likely a must, there are actually other ways to keep your home cooler that don't involve blasting your AC or a gigantic electric bill.
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Those include partnering to develop digital workflows and their joint-ownership in the Terafab facility that plans to produce a gigantic one terawatt a year in compute hardware.
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The idea behind [the brand] actually came from my graduation thesis on the concept of the grotesque.
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The grotesques were decorative stone faces around the castle.
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Most antibiotics are single bioactive molecules, and some can be thwarted with single mutations.
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Though there is still no fix for the mutation, the subsequent research spawned by the work of Fraumeni, Li, and other pioneers hasn’t been for naught.
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Shinnecock was still a brute of a test, but the red numbers on the white scoreboard were an unfamiliar site for this course.
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These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
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“Monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monster. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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