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animalistic





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Now, in the week running up to the Six Nations, he's talking in animalistic terms again.

From BBC Feb. 3, 2026

“What we’re talking about is a much older, evolutionary, more animalistic way of understanding the social world,” says Dr. Eliska Prochazkova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

“The moment that this starts becoming chaotic — like animalistic — we’re gone,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2025

Sigmund Freud thought it related to animalistic behavior and was relevant in humans mostly in terms of behavioral pathology.

From Salon Jan. 5, 2025

It was a guttural noise, an animalistic noise—

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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