as in white-faced
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Adjective
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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
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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Wholesale trade: Business-to-business distribution suffered supply-chain headaches, then anemic demand.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
3 Apr. 2025
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With anemic funding, money diverted to private schools and more focus on book censorship than reading, Florida is already producing predictably lousy results.—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Whey-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whey-faced. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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