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as in demons
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 anomalies
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 villains
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 giants
something large of its kind
a monster of a sandwich that could easily feed two hearty eaters
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Recent Examples of monsters
Based on the popular Quebec comic book created by Samuel Parent and commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Télé-Québec, the series, aimed at 6 to 9-year-olds, follows the adventures of a fearless kid who confronts monsters that haunt children in the darkness of night.
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Ed Meza,
Variety,
22 June 2026
With no idea what's going on, Dylan flees the FBC to find that the Hiss — otherworldly crimson monsters from another dimension — have overrun Manhattan.
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George Yang,
Space.com,
22 June 2026
The Bears were born as the Decatur Staleys in 1920, but George Halas built the NFL charter franchise into the monsters of the midway in Chicago.
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Ryan Baker,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
Earlier movie versions have managed the story’s most frightening moments with the limited technology available at the time—much plastic and spongy stuff; monsters in process shots looming over little men; papier-mâché boulders flung from hilltops.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
This is an ignoble war making monsters and fools out of its participants, and against the uncontrollable weapons that are dragons, everyone’s resolve is crumbling.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
18 June 2026
These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
Gremlins walked the earth so Labubu monsters could run to a World Cup.
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Caoimhe O'Neill,
New York Times,
14 June 2026
However, classist monsters online have engaged my inner Hammond and my inner ‘Rat.
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Gretchen Kalwinski,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2026
Ed Meza,
Variety,
22 June 2026
With no idea what's going on, Dylan flees the FBC to find that the Hiss — otherworldly crimson monsters from another dimension — have overrun Manhattan.
—
George Yang,
Space.com,
22 June 2026
The Bears were born as the Decatur Staleys in 1920, but George Halas built the NFL charter franchise into the monsters of the midway in Chicago.
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Ryan Baker,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
Earlier movie versions have managed the story’s most frightening moments with the limited technology available at the time—much plastic and spongy stuff; monsters in process shots looming over little men; papier-mâché boulders flung from hilltops.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
This is an ignoble war making monsters and fools out of its participants, and against the uncontrollable weapons that are dragons, everyone’s resolve is crumbling.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
18 June 2026
These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
Gremlins walked the earth so Labubu monsters could run to a World Cup.
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Caoimhe O'Neill,
New York Times,
14 June 2026
However, classist monsters online have engaged my inner Hammond and my inner ‘Rat.
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Gretchen Kalwinski,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsters
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For me, the purpose of art is to come to grips with the demons of the past, present, and future; to give form to chaos; to enable us to process fear; and to conceive of a different, more humane future.
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There are highs and lows, angels and demons.
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Pim van Vliet and David Blitz authored the Conservative Formula, which combined three market anomalies into one stock rank.
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Readers were presented with a lengthy retelling of a sole critic who argues that blue zones are built on flawed demographic assumptions, questionable age validation, and statistical anomalies.
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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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Trump’s great leaders were villains, not heroes.
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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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People are turned into wolves, there are ogres and undead creatures of the sea who lure others to their demise.
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In recent weeks, social media users, especially on X, have been noticing increasing references to goblins, along with other fantasy creatures such as gremlins, ogres and trolls in ChatGPT’s answers to user queries.
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The Cicada variant has the potential to reduce protection from a vaccine or previous infection because of the number of mutations.
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So, what causes these mutations and what's the impact?
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These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
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In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.
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Like all large whales, the NOAA said fin whales were hunted by commercial whalers and their populations were decimated.
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Data collected in this study could also help keep fishing activities away from these whales.
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“Monsters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsters. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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