creatures

plural of creature

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Recent Examples of creatures Quixotic aerialists twisted, turned and unfolded above the crowd, using flowing fabric and butterfly-inspired movements to mirror the creatures being celebrated. Sophia Buonpane, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026 With its spectacular imagery of bioluminescent creatures, not to mention a giant squid measuring somewhere between 2-4 storeys tall, this is a film that demands to be seen on the big screen. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2026 The family of a detainee recorded a video appearing to show worm-like creatures in a bottle of drinking water from the facility. Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026 As a species that spews toxins into the air by burning fossil fuels, perhaps we humans should feel a certain kinship with these creatures. Ben Crair, New Yorker, 31 July 2026 Artificial snow is piled up in their gutters, smoke seems to billow from the chimneys on the roofs and the windows of the cottages are filled with moving models of colorful creatures from the films. Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Yet while those aforementioned creatures still get rehabilitated on a regular basis, they’re now greatly surpassed in popular visibility by a cannibal undead that didn’t even exist in the genre until more recent decades. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026 This all seems like the perfect recipe for a fun cocktail of primeval creatures rampaging across driveways and lawns while residents fight back with guns and garden tools. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 31 July 2026 Float through an underwater grotto as stingrays and colorful fish swim overhead on the Stingray Falls raft attraction, or get in the water to interact with and even touch these fascinating creatures at Stingray Encounter. Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for creatures
Noun
  • Not even one of the most optimistic men in the country can deny that one of the biggest projects in the history of Texas won’t have some impact on the University of Texas football team.
    Mac Engel July 31, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026
  • Police say two men in a four-door black Cadillac displayed a handgun and demanded an arrow key, which opens collection boxes.
    Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • The heat has also caused mass losses of livestock since late May, with more than 493,000 animals having died, including pigs, poultry, and fish, according to South Korean authorities.
    Yumi Asada, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Spanning five acres of land, this remote residence has plenty of room for everyone (humans and animals) to stretch their legs after a long drive.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.
    Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Purja and his team also carried out a number of daring rescues, often putting their own lives in danger.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
  • In 2012, China occupied Scarborough Shoal, a traditional Filipino fishing ground inside the Philippines’ EEZ, endangering the lives of Philippine personnel and fishermen in the process.
    Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Noun
  • Those guys had first- and second-round talent, at least as determined by the 32 teams.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • But Ben, Anton and I, not knowing what couldn’t be done, decided that three guys in their mid-twenties with no engineering background to speak of would be the ones to get this thing off the ground.
    Ronnen Harary, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • In an alternate universe, one without the stakes and the frenzy bubbling in the distance, Skubal might have gone about things differently.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • And to understand it, and to comprehend that kind of thing, is a good way to keep your mind open to learning new things and working new things into your sphere.
    Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • But its effect on us humans — and our lives and economies — isn’t straightforward.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Spanning five acres of land, this remote residence has plenty of room for everyone (humans and animals) to stretch their legs after a long drive.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The series is chock full of supernatural happenings, with evil and malicious beings (both human and not) around every corner.
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • More recently, Adam Frank, David Grinspoon and Sara Imari Walker applied the noosphere to SETI by considering the collective intelligence of all the beings on a planet acting as a kind of combined planetary scale intelligence.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 July 2026

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