as in monkey
an appealingly mischievous person
we could never resist the little urchin's pleas for candy
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But when director Susan Seidelman suggested her for the movie’s eponymous downtown urchin, Madonna’s face wasn’t yet implanted in everyone’s cerebral cortex.
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 5 July 2024
Caribbean reefs lost, on average, more than 90 percent of their urchins in a matter of weeks, and those populations have yet to recover.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
The tide pools here teem with marine life, from anemones to urchins.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
Back on the boat, the urchins’ spines tickled the air like alien antennae.
—Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 5 July 2024
Caribbean reefs lost, on average, more than 90 percent of their urchins in a matter of weeks, and those populations have yet to recover.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
The tide pools here teem with marine life, from anemones to urchins.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
Back on the boat, the urchins’ spines tickled the air like alien antennae.
—Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Urchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urchin. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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