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So the image of an infant howler monkey clinging to the back of a white-faced capuchin confused Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.—
Elizabeth Landau,
New York Times,
19 May 2025 -
That's what scientists think after watching a bunch of male white-faced capuchin monkeys walking around with baby howler monkeys clinging to their backs.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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Then the fingers at the ends of those long, thin, untanned arms would attack the keys with the furiously proficient ardor of a Rubinstein or a Rubirosa.—
Richard Corliss,
Time,
28 Oct. 2022
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With two employees and a vault filled with gold nuggets and untanned animal pelts, the bank would soon become an essential part of the state’s economic engine; a year later construction on the Alaska Railroad completed and people turned to First National for banking security.—
Anchorage Daily News,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Jan. 2022
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Wideout coach Jovon Bouknight is now Wyoming’s OC, and he will be charged with jump-starting an offense that’s been even more anemic than CSU’s at 20 points per game (11th in the Mountain West).—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
24 Oct. 2025
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But no way were the Jets going to go 85 yards Sunday against the Panthers; their offense is just too anemic.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Whey-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whey-faced. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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