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capriole

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verb

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Verb
  • Unruh, a junior from Cheyenne Wells, romped through the girls Class 1A 100, 200 and 400 meters finals Saturday.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 17 May 2025
  • Dead by Daylight Dead by Daylight has evolved from a gory, goofy multiplayer romp to a shockingly nuanced e-sports-adjacent platform.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That his efforts take the form of a hectic period caper, packed to the gills with big-name stars and eye-catching set pieces, calls to mind The Grand Budapest Hotel, too.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
  • The carpaccio was an umami-bomb with egg yolk emulsion, pickled mustard seeds, briny capers and crispy shallots, gilded with tiny edible flowers.
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 3 June 2025
Verb
  • In a May 2, 2017 text, Ventura was clear with Khorram that Combs allegedly attacked her.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
  • Even after December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked some of the territories that McKinley had claimed—Hawaii, the Philippines, and Guam—people from Kansas or California didn’t necessarily see any reason to don uniforms.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • These premium packages lack ads and offer unlimited skips per hour.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 24 May 2025
  • On the right bud, double-tapping skips to the next track, triple-tapping rewinds to the previous track, and tapping-and-holding changes noise modes.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • All the dancers make their way inside eventually, with the elderly Bolger doing his best to gambol along with them.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • On websites, this can be reflected through repeat visits, organic referral traffic, average time on page, scroll depth, bounce rates and keyword position tracking.
    Andrea Aker, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Now, McVay must be smelling a second Super Bowl victory is possible if his team gets a few favorable bounces.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2025
Verb
  • She's pictured laying on the beach, in front of zebras grazing, and frolicking in a pool.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • The bubbly, feel-good record soundtracks the flirty campaign video, which sees Doja frolicking around the NYC streets and treating the concrete jungle like her own personal spa resort.
    Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 5 May 2025
Verb
  • Masked protesters, dancing and cavorting around burning American flags.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
  • Studying dust devils is about more than the wow factor of these wild whirlwinds cavorting across the landscape.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Capriole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capriole. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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