CURVETTED Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

curvetted

verb

variants or curveted

past tense of curvet

as in danced

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Salgado-Medina made a 51-yard field goal for the final margin as the Wildcats danced along with coach Brennan on the sideline.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Milena Canonero’s Oscar-winning costumes dress mannequins modeled on Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman, positioned beneath historical portraits and busts in the very rooms where the real figures once danced and broke bread.

— Ben Croll, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

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The officiating crew instead threw a flag on Okereke, who leaped up in the air to obstruct Watson’s pass and then landed with his shoulder on Watson’s helmet.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2026
Nix then drove Denver 65 yards in 10 plays with the aid of three defensive penalties and, with the ball nearly touching the goal line, leaped over the pile for the go-ahead TD.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026

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But previous grids had been tightly bounded—patches of orthogonal civilization within an arcing and twisting terrain.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Area 3 is bounded by Russell Boulevard and Fourth Street to the south, Covell Boulevard to the north, Highway 113 to the west and L Street to the north.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of bounded

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Like a left turn phase could be called if there’s a car there or it could be skipped if there’s no car there.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Hiroto Sakata, a civil servant from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, visited Tokyo's Asakusa district on a day trip and purchased tickets for two people, which cost 2,000 yen total, and skipped the line.

— Masayuki Oi Japan News, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026

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Navarrete reveled with one woman over her husband’s release from a detention facility.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Walker wore his Cardinals hat backward, chewed a big wad of bubble gum and reveled afterward in flashing his imitation Liberty Bell bling, the champions chain presented by Ryan Howard.

— Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

Definition of reveled

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Receiver Khalil Shakir, who’d juked slot safety Jalen Pitre and sprung open near the first-down marker, fully expected to get the ball in stride.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
After two hours of practice, with the 10-foot-tall fences doing little to muffle the bullhorn orders and corresponding groans, the huddle broke and the personalities sprung to life.

— Noah White, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2026

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