often capitalized A&S
: a mysterious creature with human or apelike characteristics reported to exist in the high Himalayas
called also yeti
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Featuring entries dedicated to the abominable snowman and Nandi bears alongside examinations of platypuses and gorillas, Heuvelmans’s book celebrates the potential of a world teeming with creatures the scientific record has not yet ossified into fact.
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Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
Neither technological progress nor scientific expansion can expunge the delightful possibility that the abominable snowman (or Bigfoot, or the Mothman) might well be out there.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
No, that’s not an abominable snowman growing a new layer of ice while sitting in the parking lot.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
From Ebenezer Scrooge to the Grinch, these are the best Christmas movie villains of all time
A Grinch and a scrooge and an abominable snowman!
—Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
Perhaps the greatest mysteries—Loch Ness, the abominable snowman, Ron DeSantis’ shoes—must always go unanswered.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Dec. 2023
The rogues’ gallery of heavies gradually grew to include predatory animals (a wolf, a lion, a bear, a hunting dog), mad scientists, a furry monster, giants, an abominable snowman, a gorilla, a pirate, a Martian, a Nazi, a witch, and a Tasmanian devil.
—Will Friedwald, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
The wild man of the snows, the glacier spirit, the abominable snowman...the yeti.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2017
Researchers took another crack at hair, bone and other samples allegedly from the yeti, or abominable snowman, of the Himalayas.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2017
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Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
Neither technological progress nor scientific expansion can expunge the delightful possibility that the abominable snowman (or Bigfoot, or the Mothman) might well be out there.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
No, that’s not an abominable snowman growing a new layer of ice while sitting in the parking lot.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
From Ebenezer Scrooge to the Grinch, these are the best Christmas movie villains of all time
A Grinch and a scrooge and an abominable snowman!
—Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
Perhaps the greatest mysteries—Loch Ness, the abominable snowman, Ron DeSantis’ shoes—must always go unanswered.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Dec. 2023
The rogues’ gallery of heavies gradually grew to include predatory animals (a wolf, a lion, a bear, a hunting dog), mad scientists, a furry monster, giants, an abominable snowman, a gorilla, a pirate, a Martian, a Nazi, a witch, and a Tasmanian devil.
—Will Friedwald, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
The wild man of the snows, the glacier spirit, the abominable snowman...the yeti.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2017
Researchers took another crack at hair, bone and other samples allegedly from the yeti, or abominable snowman, of the Himalayas.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2017
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“Abominable snowman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abominable%20snowman. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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