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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capriole
Verb
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Eleven 0-0 draws — one every three games, in effect — is another telling statistic, especially remembering how Kompany’s team romped to the Championship title two seasons ago, scoring 87 goals in the process.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025 -
That candidate would romp to a 538-0 victory in the Electoral College, but that election was obviously still very close.—
Nathaniel Rakich,
ABC News,
26 Nov. 2024
Noun
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At the domestic box office, Snow White was followed by Steven Soderbergh's spy caper Black Bag, which took in a meager $4.4 million in its second week of release for a $14.8 million total.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Much like Kiryu's spy caper, Pirate Yakuza takes what would be tangential in the main series — a whacky combat arena — and centers a plot around it.—
James Perkins Mastromarino,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
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This was a departure from Mourinho and Conte, who both moaned about investment, attacked the club culture, exited unceremoniously, and bad-mouthed them afterward.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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By the way, it was attacked from the Pentagon and from the White House as being fake news that this was going to happen and Elon Musk denounced the leak.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Peterson, his girlfriend Mandy, and their black Lab Gracie, have a house on 15 acres just a hop and a skip from Lake of the Woods.—
Brad Dokken,
Twin Cities,
16 Mar. 2025
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Connecting it to the Oura Ring 4 and listening to wireless audio resulted in recurring skips in my music.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
Verb
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All the dancers make their way inside eventually, with the elderly Bolger doing his best to gambol along with them.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Blame bounces, or the opponents’ goalies for their saves, or the Jets for not bearing down.—
Murat Ates,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Whereas in hockey or soccer, a team may only be shooting and scoring once or twice, creating a situation in which teams are more likely to lose because of something beyond their control, like a bad bounce.—
Tyler Foggatt,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The video cuts between scenes that are soaked in cold blue hues and others that are hyper-realistic, where the couple runs through city streets and frolic through parks.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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Neighbors drift from apartment to apartment, frolicking or fighting, partying more than working, as the day drags on like a high that won’t go away.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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Directly opposite the Pendry stands the notorious Riot House Bar (now Andaz West Hollywood) where Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones snorted and cavorted in the ’60s and ’70s.—
Edmund Vallance,
AFAR Media,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Queen’s Gambit netflix Ripley Year: 2024 Length: 1 season, 8 episodes Creator: Steven Zaillian The first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s infamous novel since Matt Damon and Jude Law cavorted around Italy stars the phenomenal Andrew Scott as the title character, Tom Ripley.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Capriole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capriole. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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