animalistic

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Now, in the week running up to the Six Nations, he's talking in animalistic terms again.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

“What we’re talking about is a much older, evolutionary, more animalistic way of understanding the social world,” says Dr. Eliska Prochazkova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Each year, those firms become more intelligent and more omniscient about the markets, while the market mob becomes more animalistic and less focused on risks taken in pursuit of rewards.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

And when a final showdown arrives — several women and girls chirping out an animalistic warning — the hair on the back of your neck pricks up.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024

Her breath was ragged, animalistic, the opposite of pretty.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray