scamper
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A smart kick from Smith switched play to Tom Roebuck, and the Sale wing showed deft footwork to scamper in on the stroke of half-time.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
They had more runners scamper across the plate during the regular season than anybody other than the star-studded New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
Her range of passing put the ever-impressive Meg Jones into a hole, before another lovely wide ball gave Abby Dow space to scamper in for her 50th England try.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025
The two of them scamper off the bed and out of the bedroom.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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