curvet

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Verb
  • In the afternoon show timed for that sweet spot many parents know well — post-nap and right before the evening witching hours — Pearce pranced, high-fived kids and waved at babies being hoisted in the air.
    Lynda Lin Grigsby, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
  • The sculpture includes the full car body, along with Ferrari’s official prancing horse badges, front and rear lamp lenses, and hood straps.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • The sequences of Ann and her acolytes singing and dancing to remixed Shaker hymns are transcendent, capturing the completeness of their devotion.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Fresh off her appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Xochitl Gomez danced to victory in DWTS season 32 with partner Val Chmerkovskiy.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Perry has been loping around the world on this tour for four months.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Call sliced a loping liner into shallow right, and right fielder Willi Castro, first baseman Ty France and second baseman Brooks Lee converged.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
Verb
  • Will Ferrell, who in 2003 successfully leaped from SNL to the big screen with the Todd Phillips hit Old School, was a catalyst for the golden decade of big comedies that followed.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Mohamed Salah leapt for joy in front of the elated away supporters before being mobbed by his team-mates.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While the immediate retooling impacts the auto workforce across the state, the shifts also affect the international competition where experts think China and Europe are leaps and bounds ahead of American EV technology and adoption.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Elephants moved silently in the distance, and a herd of impala bounded across the plain, skittish but unconcerned with us.
    Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
  • These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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