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[kuh-vawrt] / kəˈvɔrt /


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The very first Christmas single is definitely scripted, but there’s still ample room for the four Beatles to cavort.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025

Barbie dolls cavort in the office and trendy persons fill the motel’s Barbara bar.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

Throughout "And Just Like That" LTW has been presented as a modelesque queen who occasionally descends from her luxury digs to cavort with Charlotte.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2023

Look at them grin and cavort amid the food scraps in an activity that the movie will have us know tightens the familial bond.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

“Plus watching the Gentry cavort and make fools out of themselves.”

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

In two of its recent music videos, the quartet cavorts with cows and sheep, and a pig features prominently on the cover of its fierce new album, “I Got Heaven.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Here he applies his rich baritone to the refrains of “Teenage Dream” as his newly invented character, Lance, an uppity French nobleman, cavorts friskily with old flame Angelique.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022

‘Laurel and Hardy on the Streets of Los Angeles’ It’s all about location, location, location as the legendary comedy duo capers and cavorts in three classic shorts shot right here in SoCal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

Chad Kelderman is deliciously ridiculous as Olivia’s pompous major-domo Malvolio, and Eric Ray Anderson gleefully cavorts as the sly party dog Sir Toby Belch.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2019

The sand cavorts around like spring lamb and peas.

From The High Calling by Charles Monroe Sheldon

He had a Clark Gable pencil mustache, raced sailboats, cavorted with the late communist leader Fidel Castro in Cuba, and at one point married Academy Award-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for fraud, cavorted with football great Tom Brady and spoke on stage with former President Bill Clinton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

The sight of teams slumped on the turf and opposing managers stunned while Ferguson and his players cavorted on the sidelines became a constant narrative as a great team achieved great successes.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025

On “the beach”—an open stretch of snow between the parking lot and the lifts—skiers cavorted over pony kegs and hibachi grills.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2023

The island takes its name from the Dutch word for seal, hundreds of which once cavorted in the icy Benguela currents that wash the shores.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But Mr. Lithgow’s performance is infused with a sneaky playfulness evoking the “broken boy,” as Jessie puts it, still cavorting in the hulk of an elderly man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

The challenge for Democrats is that the district doesn’t just resemble Behn’s Nashville-based turf that features hipsters rolling their eyes at bachelorette parties cavorting on pedal bars.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2025

The official trailer for the sequel shows the chirpy red-capped Italian plumber cavorting with his friends and nemeses in a colourful intergalactic universe.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

At the age of 80, he's still cavorting around the world, playing sold out shows, recording new music and even writing a book about his beloved model train set.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

A feathery breeze was stirring, setting the flames leaping and dancing, their reflections in the black glistening oil cavorting too.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya




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