curvet

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Verb
  • While his bandmates pranced around the stage with black dildos bobbing from their noses and top hats jauntily cocked, Forrest would open the show in a Joker-esque getup, holding a flaming Bible.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2025
  • Alonso was Ferrari’s properly prancing horse back then.
    Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • The stunning display is caused by solar particles interacting with Earth’s magnetic field, and tonight's conditions are just right for the colors to be seen dancing across the sky — weather permitting.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Mary Shelley’s creature didn’t dance in tux and tails.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Kyle Tucker loped into foul territory, caught it and completed the second World Series championship in Houston Astros history.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • But longtime fans will recognize the idiosyncratic wordplay, loping syllables and ornate hooks that bend toward a major chorus, all as magnetic today as when Weaver barreled into view a decade ago.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Young also made an excellent rainbow-arched toss over a leaping defender to wideout Tetairoa McMillan to the right sideline.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Island Packers runs daily ferries from Ventura Harbor on the mainland, one-hour voyages in which there’s always a chance to spot migrating humpback whales and leaping dolphin pods.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Three design firms are vying to develop a master plan for the 80-plus acre area east of U.S. 31 and bounded by City Center Drive to the north, Congressional Drive to the east and south and Pennsylvania Street to the west.
    Jake Allen, IndyStar, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The notice alerts affordable housing developers registered with the state that the city intends to sell or lease its 1.4-acre property, which occupies the entire downtown block bounded by A Street, First Avenue, B Street and Front Street.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
  • These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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