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beast

[beest] / bist /


NOUN
coarse, crude, or cruel person
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When comparing the two systems, he says a tokamak is a "beast" while the stellarator is a "little cat".

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

“I’m using the beast to beat the beast,” said Baker, who lives close to where a data center is planned in Mt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

But Everest, first scaled in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was a far more formidable and dangerous beast.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

“I was a different kind of beast, man,” Stoudemire says in the documentary.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

“Are you actually suggesting, child, that a foul beast deserves the same regard as a human being?” he asked.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate




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