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Given how chips and AI have been entwined with national security in recent years, it perhaps is no surprise that Nvidia’s chief executive is caught up in a spy caper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

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

I’ll add some capers or a pickle or two, then you have a sandwich for the rest of the day or into the next morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

It was delicious, thick with rice and chunks of chicken, cubed potatoes, green olives, and capers.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

"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

Clay, the new champion, capered along the ring apron, shouting at the press: “Eat your words! I shook up the world! I’m king of the world!”

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2016

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

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

As a general rule, Jackman is better when in capering motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2019

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

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