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scamper

[skam-per] / ˈskæm pər /


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Conflagrations abound—in one, a pair of rabbits anxiously scamper across a road to outrun the flames.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Her range of passing put the ever-impressive Meg Jones into a hole, before another lovely wide ball gave Abby Dow space to scamper in for her 50th England try.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025

Jordan broke away for a 36-yard touchdown scamper.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

On the bottoms lie the incredible refuse of the sea, shells broken and chipped and bits of skeleton, claws, the whole sea bottom a fantastic cemetery on which the living scamper and scramble.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck




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