as in monsters
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
a gallery of grotesques from some horror movie
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Noun
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This quiz invites you to explore the darker corners of sci-fi literature, where monsters lurk not just in shadows, but in laboratories, alien worlds and post-apocalyptic wastelands.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Watch out for monsters under the bed.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The story follows Tanjiro Kamado, who joins the ancient Demon Slayer Corps after seeing his family killed by the man-eating demons terrorizing 20th-century Taishō-era Japan.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep. 2025
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In the same room as the big-eyed demons and horseriders, perhaps the most puzzling mural fragments were discovered in 2022 and 2023.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Grotesques.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grotesques. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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