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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
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.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Watch out for monsters under the bed.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
Keep calling opponents monsters, and eventually someone decides monsters should be destroyed.
—Marly Berlin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
While Clair Obscur is set in a fantastical, otherworldly environment filled with monsters and magic, these conversations are strikingly reminiscent of current debates about shifts in global reproductive trends.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The game consists of various tests — including avoiding asteroids, exploring different galaxies and defeating new monsters.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Set in a small town in King’s home state of Maine, The Mist follows a group of characters who take shelter in a grocery store when a mysterious fog filled with eldritch monsters overtakes the town.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
The speculative element can take many forms—monsters, time travel, elevator operators with extrasensory perception—but the stories then usually adopt a more classic plot.
—Nathaniel Moore
september 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
The creature, who Jam names Pet, claims to be sent to Jam’s world to fight monsters.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Watch out for monsters under the bed.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
Keep calling opponents monsters, and eventually someone decides monsters should be destroyed.
—Marly Berlin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
While Clair Obscur is set in a fantastical, otherworldly environment filled with monsters and magic, these conversations are strikingly reminiscent of current debates about shifts in global reproductive trends.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The game consists of various tests — including avoiding asteroids, exploring different galaxies and defeating new monsters.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Set in a small town in King’s home state of Maine, The Mist follows a group of characters who take shelter in a grocery store when a mysterious fog filled with eldritch monsters overtakes the town.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
The speculative element can take many forms—monsters, time travel, elevator operators with extrasensory perception—but the stories then usually adopt a more classic plot.
—Nathaniel Moore
september 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
The creature, who Jam names Pet, claims to be sent to Jam’s world to fight monsters.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsters
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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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Other centers are mostly seeing neutral conditions but some cold [sea surface temperature] anomalies are in place in the eastern tropical Pacific.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Rest assured, such anomalies occur from time to time, and all of us - especially the young - should be vigilant to anticipate - and prevent - them.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Plana played one of the two main villains in Three Amigos.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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There are true and proper villains (Mordred, Morgan Le Fay).—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Its shares fell more than 2% Wednesday after the Financial Times, citing sources, said China has ordered local tech giants to stop tests and orders of the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000D chip.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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Pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk were among those targeted, along with telehealth company Hims & Hers, whose stock fell nearly 6% Tuesday.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 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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This evolution is driven by a combination of random mutations and natural selection, where the organisms that are most fit for survival, and most adaptable to the changes that occur in their conditions and environment, are the ones who aren’t selected against, and whose lineages continue.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
16 Sep. 2025
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Slowing down viral replication decreases the rate at which a virus can acquire new mutations.—
Deborah Fuller,
CNN Money,
10 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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While critics have voiced concern about the ability of whales to skew markets, prediction markets are built in such a way that, when prices give a distorted view of reality, betting the other way proves profitable.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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Essentially, the whales started a fad of playing with boat rudders.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Monsters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsters. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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