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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.
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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.
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Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
The second book is the bestiary full of dinosuars of all sizes and shapes.
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Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.
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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
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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.
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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.
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It can be read as a direct allegory for conversion therapy and for other ways that homophobia can alter behavior and cause lasting psychological and emotional damage.
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Hawthorne’s tale is not just an allegory of the Revolution.
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But the turtle/cat comment just sounds like a summary of Aesop’s absolute worst fable.
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Shortly after his election loss, Cornyn posted on social media a fable about a frog and a scorpion.
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During his time in Lawrence, Peterson was short with explanations for his absences or altogether disinterested in providing any, a public-facing strategy that allowed others to take control of the narrative.
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SpaceX went public on June 12, with AI central to its IPO narrative.
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“Bestiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestiary. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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