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ballerina

[bal-uh-ree-nuh] / ˌbæl əˈri nə /
NOUN
prima ballerina
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I have not had one since I was training to be a ballerina when I was a kid.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

And for those who think age is a state of mind, I recommend our profile of Yoko Morishita, the Japanese prima ballerina still going strong at 77.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Monson de Kansky trained with the former Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina for three years, until her father inquired about her future.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Spinning on her toes like a real ballerina.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

At Westside Ballet’s adult showcase in August, I witnessed the sense of dignity these adult ballerinas carried with them.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2024

But questions pirouetted around Penelope’s mind faster than even the ballerinas of the Imperial Russian Ballet could have managed: Who had requested these awful stories about children and wolves?

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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