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Recent Examples of howler
Howl at the moon, like your new howler, capuchin and spider monkey neighbors!
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Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
On an island off Panama, male capuchins were observed repeatedly abducting baby howlers.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Good news for Austin's night owls and moon howlers.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
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Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
On an island off Panama, male capuchins were observed repeatedly abducting baby howlers.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Good news for Austin's night owls and moon howlers.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for howler
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My screams finally drew my friend’s mom to intervene.—
Jennifer Wolfgram,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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By now, the standard sound of rage rap — redlining drums deployed with abandon, frenetic, almost spastic chord arrangements, and often shouted, mantra-like lyrics delivered in an impassioned scream — has become a predictable shorthand for overtures to a younger audience.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
10 Mar. 2026
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Noem’s dissmissal comes after she was berated by lawmakers on Capitol Hill over a series of disastrous blunders by her department, including the killings of two American citizens by border patrol agents in Minneapolis and apparent attempts by DHS to stifle investigations into the shootings.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2026
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The infielder was mocked on social media after a head-scratching baserunning blunder against his former team, the Miami Marlins, in August.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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The film is an absolute riot, a no-bones-about-it horror flick heightened by powerful music, confident performances, and rich, resonant themes regarding cultural assimilation.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
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For a few weeks every March or April, thousands of trees erupt in a riot of billowy blooms, signaling the start of spring in our nation’s capital.—
Katie Riley,
Southern Living,
11 Mar. 2026
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Trump seemed to get a kick out of Obama’s flub.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2026
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Goldberg's relatable flub came amid a Hot Topics discussion about Punch, an adorable macaque whose story of abandonment and bullying at the hands of other primates inside his Japanese zoo enclosure took the internet by storm across the last week.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Feb. 2026
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The admission is just the latest bungle from New York’s beleaguered legal marijuana program, which has been hamstrung by legal challenges, a slow rollout and gaps in the law that allowed an illicit market to flourish.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
14 Aug. 2025
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And yes, because we are blessed with famous weather, whole neighborhoods and districts can risk spilling out into the sidewalks, where laughs get louder, music gets blasted and the street fashion becomes a runway.—
Elisa Wouk Almino
Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Roger, in chains, talks to his captor like an old peer as the two laugh about battles of old, and Roger asks Garp for a favor before dying.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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To be fair, enlisting an impersonator to attend an awards show in their place certainly feels like the kind of high-concept goof someone like Carrey — who doesn’t make a ton of public appearances — might do.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2026
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Being an error prone goof like every other AI model, however, OpenClaw took a more decisive course of action.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
25 Feb. 2026
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On dinner tables frequented by Brussels sprouts, meatloaf is the well-meaning uncle whose knee-slappers are beloved, but not particularly hip.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2026
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And, even more unfortunately, the conversations that Dreux and Alyssa have are not exactly knee-slappers.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Howler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/howler. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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