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
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
His team scrounged up three, including a rental from actor Giovanni Ribisi, who has developed a reputation as a cinematographer and camera whisperer with a menagerie of restored relics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
For Churchill, an avid collector of rare and exotic animals, the platypus's intrigue only made him more desperate to have one – or six – for his menagerie.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
“Hell, I was in the thick of it. In the menagerie itself. I was the show’s vet.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
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
At these in-game “gyms” and “Poké spots,” Pokémon Go players can pit their monsters against other players’ menageries, or collect items that bolster their creatures’ power.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2016
Since the death of the Reiche Brothers, the Hagenbacks have almost monopolized the trade, supplying the menageries and zoological gardens of the world.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by Coup, W. C.
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