white-faced

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Recent Examples of white-faced 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 Costa Rican white-faced capuchins were more likely to survive El Niño if their feces exhibited higher levels of stress hormones during preceding droughts. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025 Housed in five separate cages, the deceased monkeys included the De Brazza species as well as one common squirrel monkey, cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis. Reuters, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024 This is a truly remote wilderness and a great place to spot rare mammals such as white-faced capuchins, margays, ocelots, and tapirs, an animal related to the rhinoceros species. Lily Bunker, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024 Decades on, Fleur suddenly reemerges — all white-faced and disoriented but not a day older — to enter a newspaper office and ask to place an ad looking for Chen-Pang. Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024 The living animals seized included sacred ibises, white-faced capuchins, tortoises and Burmese pythons, while the 28 dead animals included an alligator, a mandrill and a green-winged macaw, according to a search warrant. Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for white-faced
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Starmer initially stood up for his deputy, but his support grew more anemic day by day.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Philly performance could have been the final Wu-Tang Clan concert ever had ticket sales been anemic; now the show will be the end of the group’s first leg of an extended farewell run that will push into 2026.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The silk faille jacket was not quite white but a pale blush, and the loose pants and top beneath had an intricate pattern of silver beads.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In late August, Lawrence stepped out in an outfit made up of seasonless basics, pairing an airy black midiskirt with an untucked white T-shirt and a single-breasted Dissh blazer.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025

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“White-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white-faced. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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