beast
Example Sentences
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"I was well versed with dynamic crowds but Oasis was a completely different beast," Allen recalls.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
Stagflation set in, and the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations all flailed helplessly at the beast.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
“It’s only the policies of prohibition… that make this beast churn, decade after decade, and it only gets bigger and more powerful.”
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026
Oftentimes their input is biased in some way by those that feed the AI beast.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
As if he’d been a circus beast trained to behave like a domesticated creature, the mammoth dog left the dead man’s side and slipped out of our car through the opposite rear window.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.