curvet

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curvet
Verb
  • This should bode well for Ballerina prancing past $30M. Men showed up to the guns-blazing ballet Thursday night at 61%.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 6 June 2025
  • The sculpture includes the full car body, along with Ferrari’s official prancing horse badges, front and rear lamp lenses, and hood straps.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • The soccer is the show, and fans provide music with their vocal cords and dancing with their hips.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
  • The reality star continued to post wedding highlights, including videos of himself and Blanco dancing together at their reception.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Kyle Tucker loped into foul territory, caught it and completed the second World Series championship in Houston Astros history.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • But longtime fans will recognize the idiosyncratic wordplay, loping syllables and ornate hooks that bend toward a major chorus, all as magnetic today as when Weaver barreled into view a decade ago.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • The frog leaped to national fame with Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which helped launch his writing career.
    Nathan Rott, NPR, 19 July 2025
  • Alice in Seoul was the highest climber of all, leaping 33 spots from last year to no.13 on the list.
    Kevin Gray, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Verb
  • This can include exploding upward with a vertical jump, bounding side to side, or swiftly changing directions.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 15 July 2025
  • Thanks to his coveted slot, Young bounds up the charts in the United Kingdom, as such a coveted slot can lead to a huge uptick in consumption.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
  • The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
  • These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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