caper
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This week, we learned about a presidential caper.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
The smoky-salty bite of salmon chased by a caper.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
Riley is criticizing the global economy but setting this caper in the fashion world keeps the style interesting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Minus the flash, the neon, the tailoring and the quipping, “LifeHack” is a kind of “Ocean’s Eleven” for Gen Z: a breathless, ingenious caper that moves at about 200 megabits per second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Mike said he has a new Webb caper.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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
His celebrations will have to wait for now, but by Tuesday, Ward could well be getting up to all sorts of capers in Glasgow with his Scotland team-mates.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
He recommends chicken piccata, a bright and acidic dish that’s heavy on butter, capers, lemon juice and lemon zest.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
My mom started eating again, delicately picking the capers off the rice with the tines of her fork.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
"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
Elvis impersonators capered all over the Nicolas Cage comedy “Honeymoon in Vegas,” part of a running shtick.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017
Oh, how they capered and hollered, shouted and hopped!
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
But as respectful as writer-director Jon Watts is toward creating opportunities for wise-ass capering, the movie is curiously both a labored and lax attempt at restoring that luster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
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
These “Henry V” characters — swaggering English soldiers, conceited French aristocrats and even the clergy — are irresistible, capering clowns, rarely far from fisticuffs or mayhem.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2018
“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
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