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The team selected specific animal spirits – deer, buffalo, leeches, fleas, ants, and softshell turtles – which Setyanto translated into movement.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
Bitcoin climbed back above the $105,000 mark, another sign of the deal boosting animal spirits in the market.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2025
As the joys and losses and years and decades of Granier’s life accumulate, he’s hounded by visions of fire, of strange animal spirits, or flashes of what happened on the trestle bridge once upon a time.
—Michael Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2025
Their bull case would see the index reaching 9,000 points if animal spirits take hold in consumer, business and investor confidence, while a bear case envisages the gauge dropping to 5,000 points if inflation stays high and economic growth is subdued.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
Bitcoin climbed back above the $105,000 mark, another sign of the deal boosting animal spirits in the market.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2025
As the joys and losses and years and decades of Granier’s life accumulate, he’s hounded by visions of fire, of strange animal spirits, or flashes of what happened on the trestle bridge once upon a time.
—Michael Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2025
Their bull case would see the index reaching 9,000 points if animal spirits take hold in consumer, business and investor confidence, while a bear case envisages the gauge dropping to 5,000 points if inflation stays high and economic growth is subdued.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Animal spirits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animal%20spirits. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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