beasts

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Traditionally, Celtic art, ordered and organic, is defined by elaborately ornamented objects built from recurring, interlinked forms: spirals, geometric patterns, knotwork, S-scrolls and fantastical, hybrid beasts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Gorillas were not jungle beasts, they had rich emotional lives, cooperating, caring, fighting, learning and adapting.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

The beasts were, ostensibly, running a menacing communications conglomerate in a satellite tower looking over the main field of Coachella, but now they were spooked.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

When Choudhury posts about which dinosaurs his followers want to see in the film, his replies are quickly inundated with scientific renderings of all kinds of giant beasts.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

He wrote, “Fishes and beasts and fowls of the air devour one another. But to man, Zeus has given justice. Beside Zeus on his throne Justice has her seat.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton