caper

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

A clawed caper at the Santa Monica Pier went awry despite “sophisticated” attempts by suspects to get away with poaching roughly three dozen spiny lobsters, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The snackiest expression of the theme: a loose, lemony caper relish that lives in the refrigerator waiting to improve whatever happens to cross its path.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

A group of digital-savvy Gen-Zers try to pull off a crypto caper in the impressively entertaining feature debut from writer-director Ronan Corrigan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

She told the story of a young wolf who had brought the lost girl a shank of meat, and ended the performance with a Kapu-like caper.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

Comedy capers like this usually deflate in the third act when their pleasures get punctured by unfunny gunfire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

They’re an invitation to save the pickle juice, embrace the capers and discover just how much life can be hiding in the bottom of a jar.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

Wild king salmon topped with tomatoes, olives and capers was accessorized with a puff pastry in the shape of a cartoon fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

It is a collection that stretches from Kansas to Tennessee to New York, with capers that have only grown more brazen over four decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

They cut all sorts of capers and whiffed the meat as it slowly came to perfection with the seasoning penetrating to the bone.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

"We don't have the means to pay for her studies," she explained from their home's back courtyard, where young children capered about and two rams watched from an enclosure.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Her two dogs, Emma and Bubba, capered into Speier’s sunny living and dining room, lightening the mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

Elvis impersonators capered all over the Nicolas Cage comedy “Honeymoon in Vegas,” part of a running shtick.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017

Addie, a lefty who mastered the monkey bars at two, capered about like a leprechaun, indifferent to the fate of her swooping forehands.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016

He capered about on the table; and when he came a second time to the cow jumped over the Moon, he leaped in the air.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

There’s a scene in “Don’t Worry Darling” where Harry Styles, playing a character named Jack, is shown onstage at a large raucous gathering, spinning and capering before the crowd in a frenzied solo dance.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

A capering figure silhouette on the door depicted Rich Uncle Pennybags, the Monopoly Man.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

He has described Flavor, with his comic-strip grin and giant clock medallion, as “a visual character with audio bonuses”: the capering hypeman in a band otherwise defined by stony-faced gravitas.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020

“No; only of my cares,” he shouted gaily, capering about with the children clinging delightedly to him.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya