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Recent Examples of white-faced
The idea was to spend the day looking for caimans, white-faced capuchins, and the many species of birds that live in the area, but high winds created waves that proved insurmountable, even for Le Bellot’s fleet of Zodiacs.
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Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
The howler and white-faced monkeys grew active with the heat, entertaining beachgoers who had made the Sunday trip to the park’s inviting blond strands.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2025
Trail cameras documented white-faced partridges four times in 2018 and once in 2021, the study said and photos show.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 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
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
Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
The howler and white-faced monkeys grew active with the heat, entertaining beachgoers who had made the Sunday trip to the park’s inviting blond strands.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2025
Trail cameras documented white-faced partridges four times in 2018 and once in 2021, the study said and photos show.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for white-faced
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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But the print edition is a shadow of its former self, with metro, style, and sports melded into an anemic second section; daily print circulation is now below one hundred thousand.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Glenn and the Jets are seeking to improve an anemic offense.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Photos shared by the department show a silvery gray fox bounding majestically across a white snowy plain beneath towering, sunlit alpine peaks.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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So far, he’s been spotted draped in a full-length, white fluffy coat and fire engine-red hat and gloves, watching the women’s downhill race, and casually chatting with onlookers at the curling mixed doubles, adorned in a zip-jacket emblazoned with Team USA players’ faces.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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“White-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white-faced. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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