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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
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
Though his catalogue of catastrophe is real, what one most remembers are the beasts in his bestiary.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
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Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 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
Though his catalogue of catastrophe is real, what one most remembers are the beasts in his bestiary.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bestiary
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Absurd parables like this one have been taken seriously by some of the loudest voices in Silicon Valley, many of whom are now warning that AI is an existential risk, more dangerous than nuclear weapons.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
5 Mar. 2025
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Such a trend could be like the parable of the frog in a pot that heats so slowly the frog doesn’t notice it’s being cooked until too late, except that OPEC+ has very good thermometers.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Later zombie stories tried to frame the condition as a virus, usually created in a lab so the writers can cram some allegories for greed and pride in there.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Apr. 2025
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Generally portrayed as a male, Aslan was created as an allegory for Jesus by author C.S. Lewis.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
3 Apr. 2025
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The Tortoise And The Hare Anyone familiar with the famous Aesop fable knows that the tortoise uses smarts and diligence to beat the hare.—
Gerry Spitzer,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Based on the fable of Pegasus, the seven-part work is told through dance, music, puppetry and cinema.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
28 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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Taking narratives to a whole new level, Split Fiction casts you and your significant other as Mio and Zoe, a pair of down-on-their-luck writers who become trapped in a combination of their stories (sci-fi meets fantasy) due to an accident at a groundbreaking literary tech firm.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Bestiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestiary. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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