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capriole

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verb

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Verb
  • Celebrini was coming off a three-point game on Wednesday when the Sharks romped past the Seattle Kraken 6-1 for their fifth victory in eight games.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • But Richards were there to celebrate and romp as well.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • To date, four people have been charged in connection with that caper; the gems have not yet been recovered.
    News Desk, Artforum, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Preconfigured toppings include the Gold Standard (smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, lemon), the Summer Girl (burrata, grated tomato) and the Brusco (Calabrian cream cheese, pistachio mortadella, honey).
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In October alone, shoppers were attacked in a supermarket, a Spanish tourist was scratched by a cub at a heritage site, and a trail runner was forced to wrestle a bear in the woods before sprinting to safety.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles into Israel in response and attacked the Middle East's largest American military base in Qatar.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation’s 2023 report found that nearly four in ten Arizonans without dental insurance skip visits due to cost, and another 39 percent cite the inability to afford extra out-of-pocket expenses.
    Sixteen Ramos, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Doctors recommend that people who are pregnant or breastfeeding skip fillers, as well as those who are allergic to specific ingredients for in fillers.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • All military guests who dine in on Veterans Day will also receive a Buy-One, Get-One bounce-back card for a future purchase.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Tranquill had been enjoying a bounce-back season, active in the pass rush in the opener and as a run defender since.
    Sam McDowell November 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • And in the volcanic waters of the Azores, dolphins might frolic with you mid-dive.
    Vanita Salisbury, AFAR Media, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The trio lets their imaginations drift, stretching out ideas of structure and frolicking with unexpected arrangements, often midsong.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 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 Nov. 2025.

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