menagerie
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The author said he moved to his new home in West Sussex because it had land for his "huge and expanding menagerie", and was quiet.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
They include a selection of more than 90 lots from a "cement menagerie" - painted sculptures of animals, historical figures and rural scenes.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
At Barnum’s American Museum in New York City, visitors could see America’s first aquarium, a menagerie of exotic animals, performances by magicians and ventriloquists, and waxworks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Lolita Chakrabarti’s smart adaptation rode the magic carpet of Max Webster’s staging, which had the most enchanting menagerie of puppets since “The Lion King.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
I’m working on one of her front feet when I’m suddenly aware that all human activity in the menagerie has ceased.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Wealthy rulers throughout history, from Carlos III of Spain to Moctezuma, the ruler of the Aztec Empire, have kept menageries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Eventually, the only animals on display would be a few ancient holdovers from the old menageries, animals in active conservation breeding programs and perhaps a few rescues.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, both countries launched veritable menageries aboard rockets, although none both reached orbit and survived the journey before 1960’s Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 12, 2021
From his collection he supplies museums and menageries with beasts, wild and domestic, and schools and lyceums with animal skeletons, skins, and other objects for the study of natural history.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2020
The giraffe has become familiar to us, in the menageries, of late years; but half a century ago, its very existence was doubted.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
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