prance
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The kids prance around the yard quoting “Macbeth” a decade before he’ll stage it and Mescal gets to recite a “Hamlet” soliloquy as a little treat.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
All the better to be able to wiggle, shimmy and prance your way around it.
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2022
That’s why they were in position to prance jubilantly off the field when Dunlap thwarted Garoppolo’s fourth-down, last-gasp effort to add to the litany of painful finishes for the Seahawks this season.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2021
Take away the athletes and there would be no one to watch the despots of sport dress up in their blazers and prance through the opening ceremonies.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021
Octavian blasted Mark Antony’s lack of character: Did he not prance around in the Greek garb of the drunken god, Dionysus?
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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