menagerie

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The menagerie at the Department of Health and Human Services keeps getting stranger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

At Barnum’s American Museum in New York City, visitors could see America’s first aquarium, a menagerie of exotic animals, performances by magicians and ventriloquists, and waxworks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

On songs like “Slushy” and “Predictable Girl,” she intertwines a menagerie of robotic, spacey sirens with tinges of Jersey club beats and ’90s-influenced R&B chords.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

For Churchill, an avid collector of rare and exotic animals, the platypus's intrigue only made him more desperate to have one – or six – for his menagerie.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

South America hosted an even more exotic menagerie of large mammals, reptiles and birds.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari