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Recent Examples of capuchin
Reflecting on her many memorable on-set experiences with animals, from leading the Saturday morning kids show Thunder with a horse to her infamous encounter with Marcel the capuchin on Friends, Hardin remains as ardent an animal lover as ever.
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
The idea was to spend the day looking for caimans, white-faced capuchins, and the many species of birds that live in the area, but high winds created waves that proved insurmountable, even for Le Bellot’s fleet of Zodiacs.
—Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
They had been created by a capuchin.
—Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
The idea was to spend the day looking for caimans, white-faced capuchins, and the many species of birds that live in the area, but high winds created waves that proved insurmountable, even for Le Bellot’s fleet of Zodiacs.
—Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
They had been created by a capuchin.
—Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capuchin
Noun
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The palatine tonsils are the ones seen at the back of the throat.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
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During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.—
Allison Stanger,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2015
Noun
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One of the hallmarks of its origins is a tile work from 1928 by Ernest Batcheler, an American artist of Dutch descent, that portrays a Spanish woman wearing a pink traditional Sevilla dress with frills, a shawl with fringe and a headpiece known as a mantilla.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2026
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Charlene donned a white dress underneath a matching coat, along with a mantilla, a lace veil that is traditionally worn by women in the Catholic Church.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The resident Manta Trust team has catalogued 150 individual rays and uses the world's first underwater contactless ultrasound scanner to check on pregnant mantas, while the Olive Ridley Project leads turtle research across Laamu Atoll.—
Jonny Bierman,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026
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Watching a documentary about mantas, reef sharks, or this area is one thing.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak)—
Robert Garnett,
WSJ,
14 July 2017
Noun
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Another configuration is the poncho or cloak mode, which can be used around camp.—
Maryna Holovnova,
New Atlas,
2 June 2026
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This time around, Woody has a red poncho and has visibly aged.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Bidders will also find capes, drapes, peignoirs, jumpsuits, fur coats and red, white and blue ensemble that Ann-Margret wore for a performance at the White House, when President Gerald Ford was honoring the Shah of Iran.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
9 June 2026
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Chicagoan Bill Pinkney sailed into Boston Harbor having circumnavigated the globe all by himself, the third American and the first Black person to have accomplished the feat by taking a route that included the five southernmost capes.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
Noun
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That pocket of warm water then drifts eastward, weakening tropical trade winds, which has a domino-like effect on weather patterns throughout the world.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
3 June 2026
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One such domino fell Monday, when former Iowa State forward Milan Momcilovic committed to Kentucky — immediately vaulting the Wildcats into the Top 25.—
CJ Moore
June 2,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.—
Sarah Khan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2020
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On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.—
Klara Glowczewska,
Town & Country,
30 Mar. 2015
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“Capuchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capuchin. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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