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exotic

[ig-zot-ik] / ɪgˈzɒt ɪk /


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As well as the exotic animals, Wale also kept horses, goats, chickens and ducks, according to the enforcement appeal.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

"This will enable us to study the properties and behavior of this exotic fluid in unprecedented detail."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

She singled out the city’s dozens of tusi banquets—dinner theater shows sold as exotic cultural experiences, with slickly coiffed young Tibetan men wiggling across the stage to hip-hop beats for an appreciative, largely female audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Konyaks are no longer an exotic remnant of the past, but people living through what Dr Konyak describes as "love, grief, conflict, faith, uncertainty and generational change".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Since they usually ignore the tuning, melodic forms, and other aesthetic principles of the traditions that they are borrowed from, such uses of "exotic" scales should not be considered accurate representations of those traditions.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

“Mostly cats,” she says, “with puppies and a few exotics mixed in there too.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Of the gardens, there are three “don’t misses” open to the public, including Abbotsbury for its exotics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

The python has been transferred to a specialist exotics centre where it is recovering.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023

At the time it was groundbreaking, even radical, to photograph transgender people as regular folk, rather than as exotics or freaks or medical specimens, and rarer still for the lensman to be transgender.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

The exotics walked slowly back to the Midway.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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