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zoo

noun as in parklike area in where animals are housed for exhibition

noun as in crowded, wild, and chaotic place

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“Are you suggesting that you would put the children on display? Like animals in a zoo?”

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“I believe they were going to the zoo.”

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“That attrition is a marker for how difficult and time-consuming the program is,” said Mara Rodriguez, the zoo’s development coordinator.

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The Los Angeles Zoo has announced the birth of a baby boy Bornean orangutan, the first such primate baby at the zoo in almost 15 years.

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Abel followed Cohen to the zoo, to make sure she wasn’t being tailed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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