as in white-faced
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Adjective
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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 -
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
Adjective
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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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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
Adjective
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For three quarters Friday night against the Chicago Sky, the Valkyries’ offense looked anemic.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
28 June 2025
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What a juvenile, anemic word to describe this rogue president’s action!—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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“Whey-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whey-faced. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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