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Recent Examples of bestiary
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.
—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
That creature, in turn, can be traced back to medieval bestiaries as a type of whale called aspidochelone, first mentioned in a 2nd-century CE Alexandrian manuscript called the Physiologus.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
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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.
—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
That creature, in turn, can be traced back to medieval bestiaries as a type of whale called aspidochelone, first mentioned in a 2nd-century CE Alexandrian manuscript called the Physiologus.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bestiary
Noun
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Faustian parables unlock more interesting connotations when considered not in terms of politics, but of art.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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In the parable of the cave, in the Republic, Plato compares human beings to cave dwellers who never see the sun, but perceive everything by shadowy firelight.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Making art is the axis of every lyric here, and his catalogs incline also to allegory.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Coogler's Jim Crow-era film -- the rare horror movie to win the academy's favor -- conjures a mythical allegory of Black life.—
JAKE COYLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The film presents a fable in which a cop and a machine find their way through the maze of this mystery, essentially arguing that law enforcement should have access to this kind of surveillance.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
22 Jan. 2026
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Or throw it back with some age-old fables or fairy tales.—
Maya Silver,
Outside,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Their position ignored the Ukrainian perspective on the issue, thus excluding Ukrainians as the affected party from understanding and communicating current and historical narratives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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In-line guidance did little to change that narrative, which has been hurting the stock.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Bestiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestiary. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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