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Recent Examples of animalism Hope is something that Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri can related to, having explored the dualities of hope and despair (as well as lightness and darkness, and fluidity and animalism) in her spring 2023 collection. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 22 Jan. 2025 All of a sudden, that animalism has been incarnated. Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024 But what Cameron represents to Harper is unfettered animalism, and that’s part of what’s missing in her relationship with Ethan. Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022 The Seven Commandments (Revised) of Orwellian Animalism: This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. John Brownlee, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2007
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animalism
Noun
  • But the picture’s cartoonish brutality is cathartic.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
  • The speed, brutality, and clandestine manner in which these children were deported is beyond unconscionable, and every official responsible for it should be held accountable.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
  • But also, something more intrinsic — something like her animality.
    Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That's why the spectacular cruelty with which the cuts were carried out tanked Musk's personal brand and triggered Trump's inexorable decline in approval.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
  • Currently there are no comprehensive animal cruelty laws in China, which experts say has created a culture of impunity among cat torturers.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 30 May 2025

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“Animalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animalism. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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