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Recent Examples of animalism Hope is something that Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri can related to, having explored the dualities of hope and despair (as well as lightness and darkness, and fluidity and animalism) in her spring 2023 collection. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 22 Jan. 2025 All of a sudden, that animalism has been incarnated. Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024 But what Cameron represents to Harper is unfettered animalism, and that’s part of what’s missing in her relationship with Ethan. Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022 The Seven Commandments (Revised) of Orwellian Animalism: This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. John Brownlee, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2007
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animalism
Noun
  • Ukrainians React: Trump’s claim that Ukraine was responsible for its war with Russia has left many Ukrainians disillusioned, including residents of Bucha, a Kyiv suburb that has become a symbol of Russian brutality.
    Chris Buckley, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The biggest plutocrats of the first Gilded Age, for all their brutalities, played an essentially stabilizing role from behind the scenes—the Cardinal Richelieu role, the wise banker in the background.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
  • But also, something more intrinsic — something like her animality.
    Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Matthew has been charged with first-degree murder, as well as related weapons possession and animal cruelty charges.
    Laura Barcella, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The whole movie is about the ways that cruelty and injustice become codified.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Animalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animalism. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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