beast
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Eighty years of students coming through the halls of Dorsey watched the small seedling sprout into a towering, beautiful beast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
If a beast was unruly enough, a Customs agent wouldn’t want to root around in the box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"He's in great shape," an anonymous foreign diplomat told AFP, describing Lula as a "campaign beast."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Morocco are on another fairytale World Cup run - even if their latest win over Canada was less beauty and more beast.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“You have a beast from hell as a pet, and you can’t see her true form unless you use a wand,” I say.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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
The bears "are in the wrong place. They are wild beasts; they are not pets for us to be able to say that we live together," the 53-year-old graphic designer said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Instead of a budget rampaging out of control, it’s the beasts themselves, particularly Irene, a stunning creation that resembles a glop of marmalade with eyeballs bubbling up to the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
While these insolent young men live in a medieval fantasy world of flying beasts, they reflect a very modern obsession with a younger generation that can’t live up to the precedent set by their forebears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
It may have been silly, but Shasta felt he had rather risk the wild beasts.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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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