bobbed

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Pink poodles with long black eyelashes danced in a can-can line, a quartet of googly-eyed cacti bobbed along to the music and a trio of small white dogs galloped on the stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Hours after that chocolate spread bobbed through the cabin, the Artemis II crew disappeared behind the moon and briefly lost contact with society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

With her brown bobbed haircut and round sunglasses, Pelicot has become an international feminist symbol, inspiring a change to French rape laws and a public reckoning with the problem of drugging women.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

The specific origins of apple bobbing — and who first bobbed for apples — remain mysteries to this day.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025

The little light bobbed ahead, while behind him long fingers of darkness grasped his heels.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander