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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
Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
The fifth and final season of Netflix’s monster hit was released in three parts, with the series finale arriving on New Year’s Eve.
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
But these are monster penalties that are not called consistently at all.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
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Noun
But who are the real monsters that need to be stopped — Mother and her children, or the scheming, self-serving Shaws?
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
The fifth and final season of Netflix’s monster hit was released in three parts, with the series finale arriving on New Year’s Eve.
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Adjective
The Athletic's Jim Bowden recently predicted the Blue Jays would re-sign Bichette on a monster seven-year, $189 million deal this winter.
—Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
But these are monster penalties that are not called consistently at all.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monster
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For most of her career, Gauff has rarely displayed anything close to a meltdown, rarely appeared to wrestle with the emotional demons that so often undo tennis players.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
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Logan, Cal and Kayce (Grimes) both have their demons.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
26 May 2026
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Two of the four Vulcan launches to date have suffered anomalies with solid rocket boosters, and although the missions succeeded in placing their payloads into orbit, the launcher is grounded as ULA and its subcontractors probe the recurring problem.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2026
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Along Lake Austin’s banks, listings like these are not anomalies so much as markers.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Abraham Popoola As Lonnie Lincoln/Tombstone Abraham Popoola portrays Lonnie Lincoln, better known by his villain moniker Tombstone.—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Its villains include Alexander Hamilton, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and, above all, Robert Bork, who reinterpreted antitrust doctrine as focused on protecting consumers—a legal transformation that Lynn deems the turning point that set America onto a path toward oligarchy.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2026
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The Korean giant is the biggest supplier of the memory chips that go into everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to the AI data center servers that power services like ChatGPT and Claude.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
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The union also won the right to negotiate driver contracts with rideshare giants Uber and Lyft.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
26 May 2026
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Its gigantic coal infrastructure, coal-to-chemical plants, and processing facilities could readily be adapted to handle the load.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
24 May 2026
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That company-wide deficit in profitability could potentially raises questions about it will fund its gigantic requirement for the capex required to deliver on its promise make its AI side a supreme winner.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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The grotesques were decorative stone faces around the castle.—
Adam Fox,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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The script, by Ed Solomon, treats the Sklar siblings as cardboard grotesques—heartless, talentless, united in their loathing of a father who loathes them right back.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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When one animal falls ill, pathogens can rampage throughout the brood, picking up new mutations along the way.—
Neil Vora,
Time,
22 May 2026
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More chromosomes can bog down cell division, introducing more opportunity for errors and mutations.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
19 May 2026
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Even the consumer-level codes that encrypt your online banking are so hard to break that every computer on the planet working together would need longer than the age of the universe to brute-force them apart.—
David M. Ewalt,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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Oscillating between a bumbling brute and an ironic ignoramus, Marvel Studios sees the God of Thunder more like the God of Blunder, kicking out the knees of the steady 2011 film in favour of single-digit IQ humour.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
6 May 2026
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“Monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monster. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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