creature
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Dame Julia has written more than 200 books and is best known for The Gruffalo - a story of a frightening woodland creature with terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
Rupert Mannion is a creature of corrosive spite, lording his recent divorce over his ex-wife throughout Season1 and popping around to cut her back down to size whenever she seems to be doing well.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026
“A four-legged creature is hard to make look right because he has to stand up and do things,” he told The Times — athletic things, like performing a pirouette.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
“He’s a creature of the internet, his persona was built online,” said Benjamin Gedan, director of the Latin America Program at the Stimson Center, a Washington-based policy group.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
He worked gently, knowing the agony the creature was feeling.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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