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ballerina

[bal-uh-ree-nuh] / ˌbæl əˈri nə /
NOUN
prima ballerina
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A trained ballerina, Bardot helped popularise the Repetto brand after asking the company to make her a version for everyday use.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

Ballet core may be a recent trend in name, but little girls, including me, have always revered a ballerina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

I no longer had the picture of the ballerina, which had been such an important part of my life in Africa.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

“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

I suggested that she change her name to something more exotic, like Svetlana, Tatiana, or Natalia, names of Russia’s most famous ballerinas.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince




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