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Recent Examples of capuchin
Fossils 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.
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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
Adult capuchins in the group, meanwhile, seemed blasé.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 May 2025
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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
Adult capuchins in the group, meanwhile, seemed blasé.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capuchin
Noun
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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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Paredes poses in a black dress whose style imitates that of a classic Spanish mantilla shawl.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
30 July 2025
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Some women donned a mantilla, a veil that typically signifies more traditionalist Catholic belief and practice.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Noun
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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.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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During the dives, lights on the bottom of the boats attract plankton, which in turn attract giant mantas; divers get to see them from just feet away floating in and out of the darkness.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
22 July 2025
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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
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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The poncho and the sombrero is something that an authentic indigenous Mexican man or woman is proud of.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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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.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The $85 billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger may have just seen another domino fall in its favor.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2025
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The dresses, in muted shades ranging from pale pink to pearl gray, cream and black, contrast layers of vaporous tulle and organza with long ruffled skirts and collared capes in satin or taffeta edged with lace.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
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Bianca Jones Denver, CO Let the rain become a style moment, and work that makeshift rain cover like a cape.—
Matt Nager,
Outside,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Capuchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capuchin. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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