beast

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as in animal
one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings a frigid night that was fit for neither man nor beast

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as in headache
a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work controlling the state's vast bureaucracy has always been a beast

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Recent Examples of beast This beast delivers massive sound with booming bass and crisp highs that will energize any gathering. Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025 But this is the nature of the beast, and the reality of a team who just experienced the most disappointing year in franchise history. Shane Young, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 By trampling shrubs, the beasts would encourage the growth of grasses that are good at absorbing greenhouse gases. D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 Their solution to the culture of waste is to feed the beast with more money. Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beast
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Noun
  • By the end of the episode, the audience is eager to meet the antihero, the brute, that everyone is talking about.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Slinging a sports coat over his pajamas, Long pulls up to a curb and finds Tay (Dustin Nguyen), the Vietnamese speaker, plus two silent brutes, Eddie (Phi Vu) and Aden (Dali Benssalah), who muscle into his car and take over everything: the seating arrangements, the air freshener and their driver.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • However, China said in its paper that a past joint study conducted with the World Health Organization (WHO) found that COVID-19 was most likely transmitted from bats to humans via another animal.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2025
  • Plants and pollinators can get out of sync Plants and their pollinators face another problem as the rate of climate change increases: Many plants rely on insects and other animals for seed and pollen dispersal.
    Courtney McGinnis, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Dehydration can be dangerous and may result in headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and other unpleasant symptoms, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
    Sarah Klein, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Not everyone with a mild headache needs a CT scan of the brain.
    Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Children meet superheroes and villains, engage with games and movies, and are greeted by staff in costume.
    Chris Gallagher, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The soul patch, villain, and walrus facial hair all work with masks while mutton chops and chin curtain don’t.
    Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired News, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This included four search dogs, three doctors, a diving team and a water extraction contingent, Tunisia’s state news agency TAP reported.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • In the mountains of Papua New Guinea, researchers encountered a clownish creature perched on a log in a fern meadow, basking in the sun.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2025
  • There are no Jedis, no secrets about Darth Vader's past for Reddit sleuths to hunt down, no adorable creatures to slap on backpacks and lunchboxes.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Wearing his trusty tape measure around his neck, Mancinelli said he had not yet been formally commissioned by the Vatican but was busy preparing for the prestige job, working on his sewing machine as well as hand stitching robes.
    Chiara Rodriquez, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • After a succession of dismissals for drinking on the job, Jack finally moved the family to Dixon, Illinois, when Dutch was eight or nine.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Oviedo and Sepúlveda shared with las Casas the view that Indians were not monsters and did, in fact, have souls that could be saved (a matter of debate for much of the sixteenth century).
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Beast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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