caper

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

A clawed caper at the Santa Monica Pier went awry despite “sophisticated” attempts by suspects to get away with poaching roughly three dozen spiny lobsters, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The snackiest expression of the theme: a loose, lemony caper relish that lives in the refrigerator waiting to improve whatever happens to cross its path.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

‘He gets on about it sometimes. I always go out quick. “They did this and then we did that” and all that caper.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

“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

Elvis impersonators capered all over the Nicolas Cage comedy “Honeymoon in Vegas,” part of a running shtick.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017

Clay, the new champion, capered along the ring apron, shouting at the press: “Eat your words! I shook up the world! I’m king of the world!”

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2016

He capered around in his stall, his black wings buffeting the air.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

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

As a general rule, Jackman is better when in capering motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2019

That and the fact that I ran out and met them all on the front porch looking as cheerful and lively as I could, wearing my prize ribbon, practically capering with girlish good health.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly