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chimp
[ chimp ]
chimp
/ tʃɪmp /
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Origin of chimp1
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Example Sentences
The Chimpanzee Conservation Center was established more than 20 years ago to help chimps bought and sold in the pet trade, which decimated the country’s wild population.
She already knew that the chimp adenovirus had successfully delivered into humans the gene for the spike protein of MERS.
To fight the new coronavirus, the chimp virus was tweaked to infect human cells.
To fight the coronavirus, the chimp virus was engineered to infect, but not replicate in, human cells.
Each year, park gorillas and chimps were exposed to more people — and their germs — than would visit the average person’s house over a lifetime.
In 2009, I was attacked and mauled by my boss' chimp, Travis.
Who knew that a chimp could get in the middle of a human love triangle?
A documentary film based on her recent book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human , will be released next year.
Bubbles the chimp won't be at Michael Jackson's funeral Tuesday.
In his right arm sits a fully dressed chimp, clinging to Jackson like a big hairy baby.
Why should a hairy pelt and a relatively low intelligence make a chimp non-human?
Then we hear his characteristic call-note, an impatient chimp, chimp, unlike that of any other of our Sparrows.
Chimp was not his name: his name was Alexander Joseph Chemmle.
Chimp and the Captain stared at each other for a moment, and then—'What!'
Davey was monkeyed over low, arms swinging like a chimp, teeth bared, knees splayed and ready to uncoil and pounce.
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