caper

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Hence her latest caper, which begins with a mission to track down a vintage desk and turns on a dime into a heist tied to a cache of gold.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 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

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

Clara, unshakable, led Blanca to a chair and served her a plate of cold fish with caper sauce.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

I had the kombu-cured Japanese hamachi with navel orange, capers, chili, and kohlrabi—bright, balanced, and just a little spicy.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

Then scatter olives and capers on top, and let the pan bubble away on the stovetop over high heat until the sauce reduces and the flavors meld.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

He told us about the sauce he was making, a putanesca, how he had prepared it the way Sophie taught him, shot full of capers, anchovies, olives, garlic, hot peppers.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae 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

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

At one point, a dancer in a long-snouted mask capered in front of what might have been a visually distorted car park.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2015

Oh, how they capered and hollered, shouted and hopped!

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

That capering, shifty Jordan Poole’s 31 points came off the bench.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 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

She thought of her weary capering legs and how nice it would be to rest them.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers