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Recent Examples of bestiary
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.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
Our Creature, Our Selves Image 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
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
Our Creature, Our Selves Image 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bestiary
Noun
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Apparently all mothers, even surrogate mothers, were alike, but at least Adele no longer had to fear monitory parables from her real mother.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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On Sundays, O’Neal’s father preached hope from the pulpit, stories of his family intertwined with morals and truths and parables.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Sci-fi stories about alien invasions have often functioned as political allegories for anxieties around empire and immigration, Lechuga says.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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While a campus novel may not seem like the most logical follow-up, Williams' latest — which centers on the friendship between a misanthropic professor's assistant and a student — is another pitch-black allegory told in gothic, obliterative prose.—
Tiffany Kelly,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Clark Shotwell plays the airplane enthusiast who gets a taste of first class – and chicken cordon bleu – flying with his actress mom to Hollywood in a throwback fable from a kid's perspective.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Wygodny has written original music to subtly accompany Booth’s fable, lending the emotional subtext at points a penumbra of cello.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Pine Valley, our narrative home.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Digwa was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, concluding a case that the far-right has co-opted for its false narrative that British institutions, including the police, are biased against White Britons.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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“Bestiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestiary. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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