as in to strut
to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements
pranced across the room dressed in an outrageous costume
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The sight of nude-looking cat people prancing around in fur that looks to have been airbrushed onto their skin is by itself a small miracle of audacity.
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024
What’s really scary are miniature horses, pink ribbons in their tails, prancing around the fair
while everyone conceals and carries
and cotton candy fills the air.
—Dobby Gibson, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
How to fake a car While creating fake merchandise can be a simple matter of placing an unlicensed Ferrari prancing horse logo on a product, producing a believable fake Ferrari car can be much more involved.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 18 July 2024
The moose, accompanied by one with the typical darker brown color, can be seen in the clip prancing down an embankment, out of a wooded area and down towards the otherwise empty road.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024
What’s really scary are miniature horses, pink ribbons in their tails, prancing around the fair
while everyone conceals and carries
and cotton candy fills the air.
—Dobby Gibson, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
How to fake a car While creating fake merchandise can be a simple matter of placing an unlicensed Ferrari prancing horse logo on a product, producing a believable fake Ferrari car can be much more involved.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 18 July 2024
The moose, accompanied by one with the typical darker brown color, can be seen in the clip prancing down an embankment, out of a wooded area and down towards the otherwise empty road.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
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“Prance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prance. Accessed 22 Oct. 2024.
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