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This paper studies the Hochschild cohomology of finite-dimensional monomial algebras. If Λ = K𝓠/I with I an admissible monomial ideal, then we give sufficient conditions for the existence of an embedding of $K[x₁,..., x_r]/⟨x_ax_b for a ≠ b⟩$ into the Hochschild cohomology ring HH*(Λ). We also introduce stacked algebras, a new class of monomial algebras which includes Koszul and D-Koszul monomial algebras. If Λ is a stacked algebra, we prove that $HH*(Λ)/𝓝 ≅ K[x₁,..., x_r]/⟨x_ax_b for a ≠ b⟩$, where 𝓝 is the ideal in HH*(Λ) generated by the homogeneous nilpotent elements. In particular, this shows that the Hochschild cohomology ring of Λ modulo nilpotence is finitely generated as an algebra.