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cape

[keyp] / 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

I have a fancier fleece blanket that should work nicely for Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s cape.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 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

The magician scans the office, a stack of letters in one hand, a black velvet cape lined with shockingly white silk cascading behind him, expecting a paper-wrapped box or crate.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Now he is set on unmasking the caped crusader.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

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

On coming within sight of the station, she perceived a solitary figure, that of a man, in a fashionable caped cloak, crossing the fields in the same direction as hers.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils

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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