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ballerina

[bal-uh-ree-nuh] / ˌbæl əˈri nə /
NOUN
prima ballerina
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The ballerina collaboration, Reichert said, would be part of the company’s efforts to hold consumers’ attention with new shoes and sandals in the years ahead.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

One of Japan’s most celebrated dancers, she is the prima ballerina in the storied Matsuyama Ballet Company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

In a 2003 interview with Hello! magazine, Lord Snowdon named weekend guests such as the ballerina Margot Fonteyn, financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, comedian Peter Sellers, actor Sir John Mills, and author Edna O’Brien.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

After more than a decade abroad, it was time for the ballerina to return to America.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Turns out, not only is there a supermodel with vitiligo, there are actors and singers and politicians—even a ballerina.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

“Many of them have been stretched into new silhouettes of the Samba, for example, into both ballerinas, into mules, into Mary Janes.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

That meant that his first prominent patients weren’t point guards or centers but New York’s premier ballerinas.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

When their bus breaks down on the way to a showcase, a troupe of ballerinas led by “Dance Moms” alum and one-time Sia protégée Maddie Ziegler becomes stranded in a remote hotel-bar-dungeon-arms factory outside Budapest.

From Salon Mar. 29, 2026

But Giorgos Mavrogordatos, emeritus professor at the University of Athens criticised the evzone display as "extravagant figures resembling ballerinas for the pleasure of tourists".

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

Jinny had read about ballerinas, girls who could spin on their toes.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder




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