caper

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Hence her latest caper, which begins with a mission to track down a vintage desk and turns on a dime into a heist tied to a cache of gold.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Riley is criticizing the global economy but setting this caper in the fashion world keeps the style interesting.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Minus the flash, the neon, the tailoring and the quipping, “LifeHack” is a kind of “Ocean’s Eleven” for Gen Z: a breathless, ingenious caper that moves at about 200 megabits per second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

She saw a wisp of madness escape from its bottle and caper triumphantly around the bathroom.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Comedy capers like this usually deflate in the third act when their pleasures get punctured by unfunny gunfire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

They’re an invitation to save the pickle juice, embrace the capers and discover just how much life can be hiding in the bottom of a jar.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

Wild king salmon topped with tomatoes, olives and capers was accessorized with a puff pastry in the shape of a cartoon fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Or maybe just revelling in the Canadian capers.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

My mom started eating again, delicately picking the capers off the rice with the tines of her fork.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

"We don't have the means to pay for her studies," she explained from their home's back courtyard, where young children capered about and two rams watched from an enclosure.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Her two dogs, Emma and Bubba, capered into Speier’s sunny living and dining room, lightening the mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

Addie, a lefty who mastered the monkey bars at two, capered about like a leprechaun, indifferent to the fate of her swooping forehands.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016

At one point, a dancer in a long-snouted mask capered in front of what might have been a visually distorted car park.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2015

Lena Feldt saw a woman, a short-life, graceful in her khaki hunting clothes and as full of life as the golden monkey who capered along the water’s edge beside her.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

Tom looked on placidly, a Latin rhythm capering overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025

There’s a scene in “Don’t Worry Darling” where Harry Styles, playing a character named Jack, is shown onstage at a large raucous gathering, spinning and capering before the crowd in a frenzied solo dance.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

He has described Flavor, with his comic-strip grin and giant clock medallion, as “a visual character with audio bonuses”: the capering hypeman in a band otherwise defined by stony-faced gravitas.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020

By the time you read this, who knows what weirdness will have snapped loose and gone capering through the news cycle.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018

“No; only of my cares,” he shouted gaily, capering about with the children clinging delightedly to him.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya