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menagerie

[muh-naj-uh-ree, -nazh-] / məˈnædʒ ə ri, -ˈnæʒ- /


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He strolled San Francisco’s streets with them to promote his caged menagerie.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

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

Some of the biggest names here provide the most intriguing members of this menagerie.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

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

Ms. Freeman, the science teacher and head of the menagerie, peered at Coal and Door through silver-framed glasses as they stumbled in behind everyone else, still talking.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

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

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

If my cell were big enough, I should walk round and round as I have seen the caged animals do in menageries.

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Thomas Mott Osborne




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