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beast

[beest] / bist /


NOUN
coarse, crude, or cruel person
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"I was well versed with dynamic crowds but Oasis was a completely different beast," Allen recalls.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Stagflation set in, and the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations all flailed helplessly at the beast.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

“It’s only the policies of prohibition… that make this beast churn, decade after decade, and it only gets bigger and more powerful.”

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

Oftentimes their input is biased in some way by those that feed the AI beast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Jeremy finally found the beast curled up in his sock drawer.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville