leonine
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What could be more leonine than a personal inferno?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
A garment on the ground catches his eye; when he puts it on, a vest with leonine markings that matches the fabric around his waist, he seems imbued with a newfound power and responsibility.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024
What looked on the picture to be a long, leonine dangling tail with a bob at the end could have been a shadow cast by vegetation.
From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2023
She restrains from belting these lines out with her usual, leonine force, finding delicate new tones that double down on the song's devastating emotional impact.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021
Its body was leonine, but its face, furred and matted with dirt, had human eyes and a human nose and mouth.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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