caper

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Comedy duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol used guerrilla filmmaking and footage they shot in the mid-aughts to create a time-travel caper about their characters’ quest to play the ultimate gig.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The intricacy with which Whitehead details the planning and execution of this caper marks him as a top-tier researcher — he’s drawn on many primary sources to ground this work of fiction in historical fact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The smoky-salty bite of salmon chased by a caper.

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

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

Pike perch tartare from Lake Oulujärvi rests on malt bread with capers and dill oil and a whisper of pine tar.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

It is a collection that stretches from Kansas to Tennessee to New York, with capers that have only grown more brazen over four decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

She stepped on the brake, leaned out the window, and called to the spare figure in the distance: “But we only cut respectable capers, don’t we, Uncle Jack?”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

"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

Guapo capered around, his black sombrero bobbing over his skullface.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

The cornhusking was forgotten, the fun of it, the singing, the capering that had gone on while they husked the corn.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry