caper

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 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 smoky-salty bite of salmon chased by a caper.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 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

She told the story of a young wolf who had brought the lost girl a shank of meat, and ended the performance with a Kapu-like caper.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

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

Directions Roughly chop or lightly crush some of the capers with the side of a fork, leaving plenty whole for texture.

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

They cut all sorts of capers and whiffed the meat as it slowly came to perfection with the seasoning penetrating to the bone.

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

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

All the animals capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

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

This ensemble piece, a communal chorus of witnessing, had a capering quality in the theater as it summoned Till back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020

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

Douglas’s most recent album, “Black Lion,” from last year, dealt in capering funk, briskly swinging postbop and maximalist contemporary jazz, all arranged for a sextet with a three-horn front line.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 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