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Recent Examples of bestiary
Our Creature, Our Selves Image This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve.
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Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The second book is the bestiary full of dinosuars of all sizes and shapes.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
That creature, in turn, can be traced back to medieval bestiaries as a type of whale called aspidochelone, first mentioned in a 2nd-century CE Alexandrian manuscript called the Physiologus.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
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Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The second book is the bestiary full of dinosuars of all sizes and shapes.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
That creature, in turn, can be traced back to medieval bestiaries as a type of whale called aspidochelone, first mentioned in a 2nd-century CE Alexandrian manuscript called the Physiologus.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bestiary
Noun
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Coogan was poking fun at tech companies’ impulse to name themselves after myths and parables, even when those myths and cultural artifacts have negative associations.—
Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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Plato’s prescient understanding of ICE agents arose during a discussion of the parable of the Ring of Gyges.—
Paul Rosenzweig,
Washington Post,
9 Feb. 2026
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As playful as the movie is, its central tale of persecution and resistance plays not like an allegory but like a communion, a linking of the times—the inspiration of conscience by the revelation of past heroism, political and artistic.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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But if these movies are progressive allegories of beings transcending their differences, then Hoppers is a surprisingly blunt pushback to that notion.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Described as a political fable that combines elements of a crime thriller with epic tragedy, the plot of Minotaur sees a Russian corporate executives preparing to carry out mass layoffs, who discovers his wife is having an affair.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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Bellingcat gets its name from an Aesop’s fable, in which a group of mice decide the best way to save themselves from their nemesis the cat is to put a bell around its neck that would alert them to its presence.—
Nick Tabor,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
13 Mar. 2026
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That will be part of the narrative of his return.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
2 Apr. 2026
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Each stamp is accompanied by contextual text that situates the object within the broader Revolutionary narrative.—
Amanda Greenwood,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Bestiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestiary. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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