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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beast fable
Noun
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The team’s hypothesis gets its name from a 2,400-year-old allegory by the Greek philosopher Plato.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Jan. 2026 -
His canvases are populated by allegories.—
Philip Martin,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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What kind of message would prime Jeezy have presented without the pyrex parables in tow?—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
18 Dec. 2025
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The wordplay is as colorful as the sonics are sedate, tag-team player parables sailing over production seeking a slippery middle ground between East and West Coast throwback jams.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
Noun
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But culture wars tend to reduce every conflict to a simple morality play, as Hlavacik repeatedly shows.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
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Treat the Rio Grande dispute as a morality play and tariffs feel satisfying.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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 10 Jan. 2026.
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