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bestiary

noun

Definition of bestiary

as in parable

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Recent Examples of bestiary Citizens of Louisiana only have to look up at their state flag to see an animal doing some pretty wild — and deeply symbolic — stuff out of a medieval bestiary. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025 This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve. — 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 See All Example Sentences for bestiary

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Noun

Mandela’s life and South Africa’s history should never be flattened into a corporate parable.

— Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
The pair’s mysterious interactions in the early chapters give way to a series of parables of doubt and belief, in which a rational character is confronted by an irrational event—and immediately convinced of its absolute truth.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of parable

Noun

In her role as well as elsewhere, Kalle downplays the explicit homophobia that might have rendered this a more simplistic allegory, making Asla less a figure of interfering jealousy than a woman who simply doesn’t want to be abandoned yet again.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026
This Pulitzer-winning neo-slave narrative reimagines the Underground Railroad as a real subterranean network, in a Sisyphean allegory that illustrates the relentless metamorphoses of white supremacy and Black resistance.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 July 2026

Definition of allegory

Noun

Here is the rather randy first trailer for Wicker, the comedic fable starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage that debuted at Sundance in January.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 30 July 2026
Many riders would have accepted taking a stage and the polka-dot jersey, but Carapaz’s fable is the paradigm of the man unafraid to fail.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of fable

Noun

The main event between top babyfaces Rhodes and Punk, while a compelling narrative, highlighted a repetitive formula of popular heroes clashing for world titles.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
But while these narratives demonstrate local viability, translating them into a statewide apparatus under a Republican banner is a dead end.

— Dain Fitzgerald, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026

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