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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beast fable
Noun
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As an allegory for displacement, for the lost sense of self that exile brings, as well as its eventual rediscovery, Yunan creeps up on you.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025 -
Fewer are discussing it as an allegory for our treatment of animals.—
Michael Freeman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Absurd parables like this one have been taken seriously by some of the loudest voices in Silicon Valley, many of whom are now warning that AI is an existential risk, more dangerous than nuclear weapons.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
5 Mar. 2025
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Jameson seeks accounts of its daily life instead of parables of repression, and finds them in long novels by Günter Grass and Uwe Tellkamp.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
Noun
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In Elia Kazan's still-explosive working-class morality play about a palooka-turned-longshoreman who stands up to union-boss corruption on the docks, Brando is both hypnotic and heartbreakingly human.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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In recent years, several of the slender towers on Billionaires’ Row have been afflicted with excessive swaying and creaking, problems that are gleefully treated in the press as morality plays about rising inequality.—
Eric Lach,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Our Creature, Our Selves Image This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2024
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“Beast fable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast%20fable. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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