menagerie
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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
The image includes a chaotic menagerie of an old hotel and a crowded street, including everything from Djo himself hanging from a window, a kissing couple and a parking ticket dispute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
She has created large canvases, embellished formal gloves and a gown, and—most shockingly—a decorated taxidermied goat covered in a menagerie of stitched animals, including a mischievous red-winged blackbird and a cheery possum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
On songs like “Slushy” and “Predictable Girl,” she intertwines a menagerie of robotic, spacey sirens with tinges of Jersey club beats and ’90s-influenced R&B chords.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
The Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including their giant tortoises, which, like the ancient diprotodons, show no fear of humans.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Lamb has worked on the Rose Parade for 52 years, decorating floats with the flowers that bring the fanciful tableaux and myriad menageries to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
It is these boastful collections of animals, these autocratic menageries, from which the modern zoo, with its didactic plaques and $15 hot dogs, springs.
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
Pre–20th century zoos were just menageries full of concrete and cages where people could go and gawk at weird wildlife.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2016
Then Mr. Coon said that if that was so, Mr. 'Possum had saved at least three menageries by staying right where he was in the Big Deep Woods.
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Being a continuation of stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine
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