beast
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When the leathery beast slunk off, singer James Hetfield dedicated the track to the band’s founding bassist, who died in a tour bus crash in 1986.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Shannon also holds special events at her book shop, celebrating the release of Gruffalo Granny by Julia Donaldson, with a special visit from the beast himself.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
And so, on a late morning in late August, I buzzed the seventh floor and rode the elevator straight into the belly of the beast.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
"AI is here. We unleashed the beast," said Maliyka Muhammad, a 46-year-old analyst for New York State, who thinks "a consortium of people" would be best to regulate it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Immediately the beast froze completely, although his cold, dead eyes still glared at Jack.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
“No truth appears to me more evident,” David Hume declared in 1739, “than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Industry big beasts Christian Dior and Saint Laurent will send their models out on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
He told Italian news agency Ansa: "People act based on their own experiences and I know what it's like to be hit by one of these beasts."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Its setting is much older, a version of medieval Japan where humans are crafting iron into firearms and beasts can talk, but nobody wants to listen to each other.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
“You’re obsessed with the most hideous beasts in the land, after all.”
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Vocabulary lists containing beast
"On the Menu" and "Find the Adaptations"
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"The Second Coming," Vocabulary from the poem by W.B. Yeats
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 8
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