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Jim Fletcher, kitted out like a mad scientist on a retro electronics kick, shadows the president as though he were prancing around in his twisted dreams, sometimes in the guise of an unusually tall rodent.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

If you looked closely at her back-up dancers, whose costumes paid tribute to "Little Women," "Midsommar," "Dolemite Is My Name" and … yes, those were prancing Nazis, in an ode to "JoJo Rabbit."

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2020

Spectators first wiggled their fingers in front of the holes, ere long were prancing about frenetically in an attempt to activate as many different ones as possible at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miniver loved the days of old  When swords were bright and steeds were prancing; The vision of a warrior bold  Would set him dancing.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

"That's exactly what I was saying to Chatz as we were prancing along back here," Larry Billings remarked, nodding his head as if he agreed with Elmer.

From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Douglas, Alan