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Given how chips and AI have been entwined with national security in recent years, it perhaps is no surprise that Nvidia’s chief executive is caught up in a spy caper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

During its finer, sharper stretches, this is a caustic caper filled with wit and grit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The school halls echo with tales of his hilarious pranks, pulled off with the faithful Jordie and Pouncey at his side—the snowball-filled-with-peanut-butter caper; the salt-in-the-teachers’-room-coffee affair; the lard-in-the-parade-route incident.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

A spoonful of capers can transform a simple chicken cutlet.

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

“Deadliest Catch” never needed stupid capers to create tension, and with any luck there won’t be many more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

You can’t help but laugh at de capers they cuts.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

"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

Ornamental young debutantes capered about in Christian Lacroix pouf dresses.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

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

He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

The effect is one of hapless relatability: author as bumbling travel companion, or as court jester, expertly capering to disguise her expertise.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021

This ensemble piece, a communal chorus of witnessing, had a capering quality in the theater as it summoned Till back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020

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

“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