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Animal Farm

American  

noun

  1. a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.


Animal Farm Cultural  
  1. (1945) A novel of satire by George Orwell. Animals take over a farm to escape human tyranny, but the pigs treat the other animals worse than the people did. A famous quotation from the book is “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”


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From BBC • Jun. 20, 2022

In the process, McKibben leaves out from his apt comparison the unfortunate re-establishment of a totalitarian regime that occurred inside Animal Farm after the revolution.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Seventy-five years ago, in August 1946, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" was published in the United States.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2021

But free speech is not served when some users are more “equal” than others—to borrow from Orwell’s Animal Farm.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2020

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

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