bounding
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Normally those events are covered by the Lord Lieutenant, but he came bounding out larger than life.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
The recently promoted soloist expanded his choreography’s bounding and spinning challenges into a dimension all his own—when sprung in the air, he hung there, still; when grounded by turns, he rotated like some serene tornado.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
I stopped worrying about everything I normally worry about and instead tried to imagine that I was a young boy, bounding through the forests of New England, where I grew up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
I didn’t have Louise’s light way of bounding up on humans’ beds.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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