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Recent Examples of capuchinFossils indicate that monkeys living on prehistoric Africa’s western coast were inadvertently swept across the Atlantic at least three times during prehistory, including the ancestors of today’s capuchin, howler and spider monkeys.—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025 And even more chilling, the behavior seemed to spread like a trend among young male capuchins.—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 18 June 2025 Other juvenile capuchins seem to have imitated him months later.—Elizabeth Landau, New York Times, 19 May 2025 These capuchins had gotten ahold of at least seven different howler monkey babies, and carried them for stretches of two to eight days.—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for capuchin
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.
Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).
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Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
From freezer reshuffling to roadside inspections mid-journey to the Smithsonian, the manta’s journey to formal recognition was as dramatic as the discovery itself.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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.
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Sarah Khan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2020
On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.
The poncho and the sombrero is something that an authentic indigenous Mexican man or woman is proud of.
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Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
Pride parade and concert attendees Saturday should consider taking an umbrella and a poncho with them just in case, suggested NWS meteorologist Cody Moore, who spoke to IndyStar earlier this week.
Scott's expertise in embellishment and her ability to execute it in the most chic way prevailed; whether as crystal beading on the cape-style lapel of a jacket, a delicate fur-like fringe in neon green flanking a black dress, or a tubular velvet rope trimming the edges of tank-style pieces.
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Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Not all heroes wear capes, this one wears a red and black suit.
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