larker

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Noun
  • In 2013, Wang and his colleagues were the first in China to successfully transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived 14 days.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Rather than hide them under leaves or in caves, the hummingbirds build them on top of large, flat leaves, leaving them more exposed to snakes, monkeys, and other predators.
    ByErik Stokstad, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But who among Mike White’s gallery of rogue, evil gays reigns supreme?
    Samantha Allen, Them, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Here, Snow White, played by Rachel Zegler gains the courage to take back her father’s kingdom from the Evil Queen, played by Gal Gadot, with the help of seven dwarfs and a crew of rogue bandits.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Read on for an exclusive excerpt from the prologue of The Secret Book Society. London, England June 1895 Clara Chambers, the Countess of Duxbury, entered her drawing room and considered the urchin who’d demanded to be seen at once.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • There were enormous sponges and urchins with long spines.
    Nell Zink, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Montesquieu was charged with fleeing a police car, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and obstructing governmental administration.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Garrett, who was paralyzed as a result of the crash, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, fleeing to elude high speed (serious bodily injury or death), battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and criminal mischief.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.
    A.A. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
Noun
  • The son is his father’s fiendish double, an antic, self-loathing imp who, loudly proclaiming his adoration of Eli-Leizer, makes a mockery of him.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Combining animation and live action, the film continues the adventures of the magical imp Pumuckl.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Larker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larker. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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