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

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

Pierce Brosnan starred in 1999 art house caper The Thomas Crown Affair, which itself was a remake of a 1968 film of the same title.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

The school halls echo with tales of his hilarious pranks, pulled off with the faithful Jordie and Pouncey at his side—the snowball-filled-with-peanut-butter caper; the salt-in-the-teachers’-room-coffee affair; the lard-in-the-parade-route incident.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

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

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

“Just so. After your capers are concluded, you will help serve and pour. See that you do not spill on the guests, or it will go ill for you.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

"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

Proud of its burden, the horse tossed its head and capered, while Hamlet acknowledged the crowd with grand gestures.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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