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
  • 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
  • On an island off Panama, male capuchins were observed repeatedly abducting baby howlers.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).
    Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
  • From freezer reshuffling to roadside inspections mid-journey to the Smithsonian, the manta’s journey to formal recognition was as dramatic as the discovery itself.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 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
  • Gayle King stood out in a pleated, hot-orange V-neck cape dress, open-toe heels and a wristful of bracelets.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • By the 1920s and '30s, fox skins draped around the shoulders or fashioned into capes were especially beloved.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 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 16 Sep. 2025.

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