beast
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Hull will be quite happy to be the beast, but there are some games where that won't work.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Playing in live games, in which the stakes are higher and the risk of injury looms greater, is a different beast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
While working his way back home, he’s forced to outsmart a vicious beast at close quarters, and he takes up residence with a suitor.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 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
“Don’t touch it,” I said, slapping Pita’s hands away as she came up to pet the beast.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
Enter Sleek, the crabby tabby cat, and the Rev. Vicarious Cronch, the biblically recondite goat: interlocutors, speaking beasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Their work is a cultural bridge much like Ashitaka’s effort to bring the worlds of beasts and men together for a common cause, depicting what Miyazaki sees as one of humanism’s central conundrums.
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
He’d spent years burying anything that made him uncomfortable, upset, or nervous, and he’d run from his own nightmares until they’d hunted him down like beasts of prey.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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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