as in to prance
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At times, the show subverts expectations, casting Salonga as the Into the Woods witch while Peters prances about in a red cloak as Little Red Riding Hood.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
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Inside the mansion At Holt Kramer's home on an early December evening, Stormy, her rescue poodle, pranced down a spiral staircase into the living room.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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Jackson shared a video of himself dancing on a tribute to late Washington player Sean Taylor, who died in 2007.—
Ilana Frost,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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The winner of the Pulitzer Prize—who cannot make people get up and dance.—
Taylor Crumpton,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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How much of the floor could his team cover if no one ever loped back on defense and gave the other team space to breathe?—
CJ Moore,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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Then the tamarin departed, loping through the leaves.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
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He’s clearly picked up some of his dad’s classic moves on the stage, leaping and swinging his guitar neck like Excalibur.—
Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
11 Feb. 2025
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The glow from the leaping blaze could be seen for miles around.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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However, La Jolla’s unique topography — bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and canyons to the east — doesn’t leave a lot ways in or out, and several involve taking the often-congested Torrey Pines Road.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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That district mostly lies east of Calumet Road and is bounded to the north by Indian Boundary Road and the Indiana Toll Road to the south.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Jan. 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
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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
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From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
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Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
19 July 2024
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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