bounding
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She worried this new song—a three-minute romp set to a bounding rhythm in the fashion of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel”—was overdoing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
The recently promoted soloist expanded his choreography’s bounding and spinning challenges into a dimension all his own—when sprung in the air, he hung there, still; when grounded by turns, he rotated like some serene tornado.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
Her long-awaited follow-up expands the geographical canvas, bounding from L.A. to New York to Zurich, following five Black millennial women as they navigate careers, family struggles and COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter-era social upheavals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
She was pretty excited and kind of bounding around in front of me.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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