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- noun Plural form of
simian .
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Examples
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Olcott wrote the lyrics to several sentimental ballads, including “My Wild Irish Rose” and “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” which came to symbolize the sober, romantic, chaste, and nondancing Irish who were invented to replace the white simians of old.
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Snakes and spiders killed simians in the African jungles where proto-humans branched off from chimpanzees about 20 million years ago.
Evolutionary psychology explores ancient and newer roots of instinctual fears
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I can't tell you how many times I've admonished the simians at the National Zoo, Sure, some of you use tools, and that's great!
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I can't tell you how many times I've admonished the simians at the National Zoo, Sure, some of you use tools, and that's great!
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(Watched 60 Minutes last night showing Jane Goodall and her chimps; the simians evidenced all the good and bad elements of their closest relations, us.)
Jay Weston: Food Event at Malibu Ranch Was Different -- It Had Animals as Well as People!
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Snakes and spiders killed simians in the African jungles where proto-humans branched off from chimpanzees about 20 million years ago.
Evolutionary psychology explores ancient and newer roots of instinctual fears
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My fellow simians and I declared that the School was his alma mater, and about once every day, one of us would tell Rodney that we had called somebody from the school.
Dan Lybarger: Tales of a Phone Monkey: My Tour of Duty at Sallie Mae
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Like it or not, the distant ancestors of our species were simians — monkeys, apes, what-have-you.
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As if defeating the human race weren't enough, the super-smart simians of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" made short work of the box-office competition this weekend, far surpassing expectations.
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I can't tell you how many times I've admonished the simians at the National Zoo, Sure, some of you use tools, and that's great!
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