joseph

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Noun
  • 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
  • Iredell County Animal Services (ICAS) warned residents in the Troutman area on Wednesday, Sept. 17, that a capuchin monkey is on the loose.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
  • His name is Frankie, a capuchin monkey who has lived in his cage in Pet Stop for nearly two decades.
    Madeline King, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • The researchers believe the mantas are using nature's cues such as changes in magnetic field strength, oxygen concentration, temperature and light to navigate themselves onto the right path for the next days' travel.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The mantas are still spotted in May and October, but in fewer numbers.
    Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • White capote has the potential to reach 50 feet in height and tolerate wetter soil than most fruit trees and will yield a good crop in less than full sun exposures.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 10 July 2025
  • In the first and third, the matador performs a series of passes of the bull through capes, first a large pink and yellow cape known as a capote and then a smaller red cape.
    Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
Noun
  • Unlike most superhero costumes, this heroine's look doesn't require a cape!
    Emma Kershaw, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The model wore an off-white peasant blouse with ruffled sleeves, a leather studded corset, teal and white bloomers, and a magnificent ruffled cape.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
  • Line class, tippet class, and length records for Florida-strain fish will still be eligible for records in the largemouth bass category.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 19 June 2024
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“Joseph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joseph. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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