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beast

[beest] / bist /


NOUN
coarse, crude, or cruel person
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The software developers will report earnings within the next several days—Atlassian on Thursday and Monday.com on Monday—and their numbers are expected by Cantor to at least tame the beast.

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The software developers will report earnings within the next several days—Atlassian on Thursday and Monday.com on Monday—and their numbers are expected by Cantor to at least tame the beast.

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"Football is brutal and yes, it's the nature of the beast, but messing with human beings' feelings and emotions shouldn't be acceptable."

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Long gashes, like wounds in the earth from some terrified beast clawing at a nightmare, raked the ground next to the crater on the mountain top.

From Literature

Harris-Genois said part of his job was to make the beast "even more imposing."

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