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beast

[beest] / bist /


NOUN
coarse, crude, or cruel person
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Antonyms


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But the A.I. boom proved to be a more formidable beast.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

In second place sat a far-less scary beast: "The Cat in the Hat."

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

His weary voice, describing with sympathy what this solitary, hungry rover is going through, details a broken relationship between human and beast, but more keenly and traumatically, between humans and humans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Poehler warms to the video podcast medium, a separate beast from pure audio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Anya managed to catch a glimpse of the dragon's wide blue eyes for a second before the beast vanished under the water.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Tech firms diverged Thursday with a mixed bag of results for some of the AI sector's big beasts tempering the recent spurt of optimism amid growing anxiety about companies' investment and debt.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

There are green-skinned beasts and monosyllabic men with impossibly tall blond hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

As the Corps of Discovery worked its way up the Missouri River, past herds that stretched to the horizon, they knew the shaggy brown beasts by the term Americans have used ever since: buffalo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

He told Italian news agency Ansa: "People act based on their own experiences and I know what it's like to be hit by one of these beasts."

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Out of the door bounded a huge black dog exactly like the beasts that had attacked Nhamo on her first night in Zimbabwe!

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer


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