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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beast fable
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These are tales of misplacement and metamorphosis — humans as beasts, beasts as allegories.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026 -
The horror film serves as a gory allegory for the evils that persisted in the South in the Jim Crow era in the late 19th century and onward.—
Yi-Jin Yu,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
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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Greenidge weaves her morality play, warning of the dangers of social media and lamenting the changes in human communication, into a family setting that’s economically stressed from the pandemic fallout.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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The Colbert-Talarico controversy became a convenient morality play.—
Jay Caruso,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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Kratos and his son Atreus traverse the nine realms, dig up old traumas, and stand off against a whole bestiary’s worth of gargantuan, flesh-eating monsters.—
Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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Their violence — in medieval bestiaries, unicorns are regularly said to have beef with elephants and take them down by goring their bellies — is contrasted with their gentleness towards maidens and innate understanding of purity.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Beast fable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast%20fable. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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