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cape

[kayp] / keɪp /




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Their first character was a 'superhero dolt', with a cape and a habit of falling down holes.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Shipping lines reroute around the cape, war-risk premiums climb, and the costs show up in the price of nearly everything that reaches the U.S. by sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

This week, the leader of our second-most-popular political party could be unseated in an election by a man who wears a floor-length cape and a bin over his head.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026

But Count Binface, who dresses with a grey dustbin over his head wearing a cape and silver armour, could snatch a fifth of the votes, according to a Survation poll.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

I had her watch how Romero took the bull away from a fallen horse with his cape, and how he held him with the cape and turned him, smoothly and suavely, never wasting the bull.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

That belief is patently untrue, but more difficult to measure if filmmakers and studios refuse to take a real chance on their caped crusadettes.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Presiding over the baddies, Jared Leto’s blue-skinned, caped, literally boneheaded man-demon Skeletor is meant to be the fiercest of antagonists, but even his own henchmen find his signature evil cackle to be a bit laughable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

In France, his caped and bearded figure became an emblem of Christian self-sacrifice.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

The elegance of an open tuxedo baring flesh, and the simplicity of flowing silk caped dresses made a statement, but there was a sense of familiarity.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

Morning after morning, with an old caped driving-coat cast about his shoulders and a shabby hunting-cap on his grey head, he would walk down to the little bridge that carried the drive over the stream.

From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman

The pilgrimage, caping Salonen’s “Rituals,” involves dancer and choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, producer Kate Nordstrom and composer Tim Hecker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

"Superpower" has everything a doubting public could want in the way of reassurance, with its determined hero caping for an embattled nation and who happens to be a huge fan of its president.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2023

In others, however, the writers ply exhausted tropes conflating inclusive storytelling with white savior caping.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2023

All this somehow makes its history-inspired fabrication feel genuine and universal, caping the philosophy that ideals that make the common man super.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022

This caping technique, which should be done before field dressing to avoid bloodying the hair and making invasive cuts that will be difficult for the taxidermist to conceal, leaves enough hide for a shoulder mount.

From Time Magazine Archive


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