prance
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In the latter’s music video, Teasdale and Chambers unforgettably prance around in long, blue dresses while sporting lobster claw gloves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
Somewhere between Jacob Riis and Charlie Chaplin, Murillo offers a knowing but escapist prance through need.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Lady Bridgerton seems almost otherworldly in a world where women continually prance about in ethereal dresses that look like ballet costumes.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 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
Annie watched Guiteau prance back and forth in front of a mirror.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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But we come to love Ava’s BFF Danica, who prances into obvious death traps wearing flimsy silver mules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
Mousseau said the team has grown close to some dogs, naming one Prancer because she excitedly prances around when she sees people.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
In The Unseen Queen, the BBC's beautiful documentary of family-filmed footage of the young princess, Lilibet prances and dances, pranks and laughs.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022
And sometimes Mitski’s charming prances around the stage in her flowy dress or pantomimed door-knocking in “Should’ve Been Me” warranted a snapshot.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
Father leaps and prances around me, sniffing me and licking my fur.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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I could see his wild imagination at work and his interest in being an entertainer as he pranced around the house doing Elvis impersonations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Ramirez’s 4-year-old daughter - who pranced behind her mother, blowing bubbles and popping the ones that landed in her brown curls - has a lung condition.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
She kicked off her performance with “Money” as she pranced across the stage.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
We pranced by the Scientology church, the Oaks Gourmet, Gelson’s and a cul-de-sac.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
They pranced and whirled in circles around the stage.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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On May 14, almost exactly 43 years later, the track was No. 1 again, prancing to the top of Spotify’s global chart following the release of the biopic “Michael.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The beige and blue mosaic of a prancing bull surrounded by a coat of arms is located in the city's historic 19th-Century Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II arcade.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Yet the brand with the prancing horse logo took several years before deciding to throw its hat into the all-electric ring.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Suddenly, the rock god who only three years prior hit his commercial apex with “Let’s Dance,” a master of artistic shapeshifting who pioneered music videos long before MTV existed, was prancing around with Muppets.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
“Would it be enough if you were to wave your tail in the air, instead of prancing? There is a certain discomfort for the forequarters during the prance.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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