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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
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Gold saw its largest quarterly decline in 13 years, further unwinding last year's monster run.
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Alex Harring,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
Someone in the mid-Atlantic will likely see monster snow numbers.
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Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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One starry-eyed Minion, though, James, vows to mount a monster movie with real monsters.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Gold saw its largest quarterly decline in 13 years, further unwinding last year's monster run.
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Alex Harring,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
Adjective
Parkinson stands 6-foot-7 and had monster red-zone production in 2025, which would offer a dimension that the Broncos haven’t had at tight end since the days of Julius Thomas.
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Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
Someone in the mid-Atlantic will likely see monster snow numbers.
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Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monster
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Wynonna, with help from her younger sister, the town’s sheriff and an infamous Wild West gunslinger, must save her hometown from demons and other supernatural creatures.
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In the film, Tanjiro, Nezuko and the Hashira are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where the Demon Slayer Corps must confront the terrifying Upper Rank demons.
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The film stars Gosling as Ryland Grace, an amnesiac teacher on a solo mission to save Earth from a sun-draining anomaly.
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Bobrovsky should still have tread on the tires, and maybe last season was an anomaly.
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There are probably easier ways to mount a crime thriller steeped in gritty realism than centering it on a villain made of gas.
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That doesn’t mean Netherlands players are villains, or anything less than heroes for their country.
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Since then, the commission has widened its crackdown on digital giants with more antitrust investigations targeting Amazon, Apple and Facebook and sweeping new rules aimed at clamping down on the biggest digital companies.
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In the years since, Monsanto, now owned by German chemical giant Bayer, has paid out over $10 billion to settle about 100,000 claims from people who said their health was harmed after they were exposed to Roundup.
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But a loss, coming after such an absurd, farcical process, and removing the possibility of a gigantic matchup against Spain or Portugal in the quarterfinals in Los Angeles, would be unforgivable.
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The gigantic star cluster inside the nebula NGC 3603 (about 20,000 light-years away) shines in a second image.
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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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The virus spends approximately ten months of every year locked inside dormant mosquito eggs that overwinter beneath leaf litter and snow, with little to no viral replication, so few new mutations enter the population.
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That’s because Adamala’s team had to create genetic variation synthetically, instead of allowing for random mutations in DNA.
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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 7 Jul. 2026.
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