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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beast fable
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The collection of films—from unsettling horror and feminist thrillers to cosmic punk epics and political allegories— celebrates the ways Asian cinema defies convention.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025 -
What begins as a character study morphs into an allegory of human greed and climate change.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
Wired News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Some such principles can even be drawn from Christ’s own parables.—
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The series of parables and contained narratives are also dotted with evidence of time travel.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Everybody is an adaptation of a 15th-century morality play; the actors take turns, assigned by lottery, playing the various characters.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
30 May 2025
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These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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Citizens of Louisiana only have to look up at their state flag to see an animal doing some pretty wild — and deeply symbolic — stuff out of a medieval bestiary.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
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This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Beast fable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast%20fable. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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