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capriole

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verb

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Verb
  • McCarron was just as upset as every other Alabama fan who had to watch the Florida State Seminoles romp the Crimson Tide on Saturday.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Spencer crafts a delightful enemies-to-lovers romp with enough naughty tennis and pickleball puns to fill a ball machine.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But a Dan Brown caper also runs on a certain kind of intellectual fuel.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Picadillo, a main course usually made with ground beef, tomatoes, olives and capers, could be described as a sloppy joe with a Spanish accent.
    Faye Levy, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Estonian police said the drone was likely en route to attack targets inside Russia.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His voice took a few beats to settle, but in the meantime who wouldn’t be captivated by Martin’s joyful skips, knee bends, winks and grins?
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, YouTube Music's free version has unlimited skips, on-demand playback, and shuffling.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 2 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
Noun
  • Yet, for a team whose defense hardly made any plays for months at a time last season and dug an insurmountable hole by never getting the lucky bounce or break in a zillion one-score losses, there were no apologies.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Philadelphia 76ers are looking for a bounce-back season after being one of the most disappointing teams in the league last season.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On Thursday, the 40-year-old pop star was spotted taking a dip in the ocean and frolicking on the beach in Miami, Florida.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Suicune and several other Pokémon frolicking in a picturesque stream in key artwork for Pokémon TCG Pocket's Secluded Springs expansion.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Monroe, Lemmon and Curtis cavorted there.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Contreras tagged Randy Rodriguez’s hanging slider in the bottom of the ninth, cavorting around the bases while his teammates spilled out of the home dugout.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
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“Capriole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capriole. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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