menagerie
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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
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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
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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