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
I stopped worrying about everything I normally worry about and instead tried to imagine that I was a young boy, bounding through the forests of New England, where I grew up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Sir Billy told McClelland: "I wish you all the very best, I hope your career goes bouncing from strength to strength and that the Glasgow humour goes bounding from strength to strength, as it will."
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
After a moment, he only nodded and turned back toward the cabin, bounding up the steps.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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