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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
Putting Scooby-Doo and the gang up against real monsters creates some great storytelling opportunities.
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Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
Fincher’s take on Flynn’s phenomenon is one of our best literary adaptations of the decade, and while there are no literal monsters in it, there’s nothing spookier than a cool girl.
—Emily Temple
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
The trick works too on Dratch, who once feared monsters under her bed, and Oswalt, who jokes about quicksand being his biggest worry.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
While questioning whether or not life as a mercenary is his true destiny, Guts is plunged into an increasingly complex world of men and monsters.
—Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
As the eager creator explains when trying to capture a testimonial video, Lumiose is attempting to bridge the social gap between people and monsters by building Wild Zones within the city where Pokémon can live naturally without being owned by a trainer.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
As that interior strife becomes more evident, the beautiful mountain village gives way to rot, decay, and of course, actual monsters.
—Vincent Acovino, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
But nothing beats watching fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles with Westley/The Man in Black/The Dread Pirate Roberts as your guide.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Both filmmakers traced their creative origins to childhood encounters with monsters and Japanese animation.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
Fincher’s take on Flynn’s phenomenon is one of our best literary adaptations of the decade, and while there are no literal monsters in it, there’s nothing spookier than a cool girl.
—Emily Temple
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
The trick works too on Dratch, who once feared monsters under her bed, and Oswalt, who jokes about quicksand being his biggest worry.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
While questioning whether or not life as a mercenary is his true destiny, Guts is plunged into an increasingly complex world of men and monsters.
—Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
As the eager creator explains when trying to capture a testimonial video, Lumiose is attempting to bridge the social gap between people and monsters by building Wild Zones within the city where Pokémon can live naturally without being owned by a trainer.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
As that interior strife becomes more evident, the beautiful mountain village gives way to rot, decay, and of course, actual monsters.
—Vincent Acovino, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
But nothing beats watching fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles with Westley/The Man in Black/The Dread Pirate Roberts as your guide.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Both filmmakers traced their creative origins to childhood encounters with monsters and Japanese animation.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsters
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But vanquishing his demons against the team for which his on-field struggles were most highly publicized would be a cathartic endeavor.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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However, he is born out of the same need to release music, to release the demons that are entering his brain.—
Jayson Buford,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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Machine learning helps detect anomalies at scale, while automation reduces analysts’ workload by triaging alerts and speeding up responses, Achanta told ISACA.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Among the tasks included in that program are real-time monitoring for high-risk spending activity and better tracking of spending anomalies by students or vendors, according to Smith.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement As many of the best villains do, Ok-seon has a sympathetic backstory.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Developed and released by Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc, the game allows players to fight and explore as both heroes and villains from the iconic franchise, following a story mode that takes place in the universe’s Final War arc.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Several stores, including grocery chains and retail giants, will be closing their doors in October.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Shrek and Fiona are now both full-time ogres, but Fiona’s parents (John Cleese and Julie Andrews) aren’t too thrilled, as a particularly tense family dinner scene makes clear.—
Skyler Trepel September 1,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The supplement helps repair DNA damage from UV exposure, lowering the chances of cancerous mutations.—
Jamie Ducharme,
Health,
26 Sep. 2025
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Darwinian evolution assumes that random mutations happen all the time.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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An extermination of the brutes in the Middle East, presided over by Obama’s successors, has been followed by a swift cancellation by Trumpian decree of the postracial age.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Some are slow and heavy brutes that have tons of health while others are slightly but deal more damage.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
18 Aug. 2025
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Neytiri, Jake, Tonowari, and Ronal attend a watery council meeting of nine Tulkun whales, and Spider, a human capable of breathing on Pandora, is shown merging with Eywa.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Inspired by nature, SandboxAQ’s solution uses Earth’s magnetic field like birds and whales do.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Monsters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsters. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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