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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of caper.

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Examples

  • He struggled to put a name or face to the voice, but the memory capered at the edge of his recall, out of reach and beyond his grasp.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Discreetly, in the vicinity of the snake's tail, the mouse capered.

    On Deadline Jonathan Sapers 2011

  • When Blume started talking about sex with Fern, becoming increasingly specific about all of it, the green hue of her flesh, the faded tattoos, her burps, Ernie's thoughts capered elsewhere.

    Summer Hits Kilean Kennedy 2011

  • He struggled to put a name or face to the voice, but the memory capered at the edge of his recall, out of reach and beyond his grasp.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • He struggled to put a name or face to the voice, but the memory capered at the edge of his recall, out of reach and beyond his grasp.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Discreetly, in the vicinity of the snake's tail, the mouse capered.

    On Deadline Jonathan Sapers 2011

  • Discreetly, in the vicinity of the snake's tail, the mouse capered.

    On Deadline Jonathan Sapers 2010

  • Discreetly, in the vicinity of the snake's tail, the mouse capered.

    On Deadline Jonathan Sapers 2011

  • He struggled to put a name or face to the voice, but the memory capered at the edge of his recall, out of reach and beyond his grasp.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • She'd capered with Marlins and sharks, had known them by name.

    Eviction 2010

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