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When we catch up with her in the late 1930s, she’s gallivanting around the south of France with her friends, the group blithely unaware of the horrors that await with the rise of Adolf Hitler.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

The women in “Cold Victory” are Louise Koski and Natalya Bobrova, who remain in Helsinki while their husbands are off gallivanting.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

Elsewhere in the Red Keep, the next generation of Targaryen men are gallivanting about, looking just as ill-suited for leadership as their predecessors.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022

Whenever the film starts to have some fun, though, it cuts things short, almost as if to remind you that this is supposed to be Gotham before costumed psychopaths gallivanting around was a regular occurrence.

From The Verge • Feb. 28, 2022

A few of the smaller men even go gallivanting around in little undershirts decorated with childish prints, and nobody seems to notice the joke.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver