bestiary
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The crew, who are near the end of a 65-year mission — suspended animation keeps them young and pretty — are transporting an extraterrestrial bestiary back to Earth.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025
Her bestiary, inevitably, is also a catalog of human greed, ego, and neglect.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023
With terrifying beasts like the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer, Stranger Things has slowly been building up an impressive bestiary of monsters.
From The Verge • May 28, 2022
It is perhaps this characteristic that makes the usual bestiary so outlandish to the twentieth-century mind.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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