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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capriole
Verb
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Shooting at a magical level while largely shutting down the nation’s top scoring offense, UCLA romped its way to a 94-70 victory over Iowa that did more than stop a four-game losing streak.—
Ben Bolch,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025 -
They can be found romping (or dozing) in the zoo's snow leopard habitat.—
Christine Clarridge,
Axios,
14 Jan. 2025
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What could have been a disposable 2000s caper has been reborn as a 2020s TV miniseries, for better and for worse.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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The film is a fish-out-of-water caper, as two exotic art weirdos attempt to charm ranchers and perplexed local officials.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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On Wednesday, gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Jableh, killing two members of the new government’s security force.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The Chargers have the space to potentially attack the top of the market at this position.—
Daniel Popper,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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In recent years, base MacBook Pro models have felt like an automatic skip.—
Quentyn Kennemer,
The Verge,
20 Dec. 2024
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There are other options, including a ballistic reentry, with a steeper trajectory that is harder on the crew in terms of gravitational forces, and a direct reentry, which involves a miniature skip.—
Benj Edwards,
Ars Technica,
4 Sep. 2024
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The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.—
Joan Oleck,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
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Those endless summer days spent watching Messi gambol around the football pitches of our souls?—
Jack Lang,
The Athletic,
14 July 2024
Noun
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This season, 138 of his 177 three-point attempts have come without a dribble, but he’s quietly been effective off the bounce, converting 41 percent of his pull-up threes.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Icons glitter, shimmy, bounce, and in other ways evade the chasing eye.—
Joel Khalili,
WIRED,
15 Jan. 2025
Verb
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For kids, there’s also The Snow Zone, a place to play and frolic in the snow.—
Stacey Lastoe,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2025
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On January 1, Markle celebrated the new year by frolicking barefoot on a seemingly empty beach in a loose-fitting white button-up and white capris pants.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
1 Jan. 2025
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For a year or two along the way, Dan's wife, Marilyn, wore a cub costume and also cavorted on the sideline.—
Neal Rubin,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Dec. 2024
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Some 500 of them cavorted at Frank Buck’s Jungle Camp on a humanmade structure called Monkey Mountain.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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“Capriole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capriole. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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