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ballroom

[bawl-room, -room] / ˈbɔlˌrum, -ˌrʊm /




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The professional ballroom dancer also slammed rumors that she was at all dissatisfied with her celebrity pairing alongside 55-year-old Rodriguez, the talk show sidekick to Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

"It's one year away from completion of the new ballroom that you've heard about, and you will see something that I think you will really love."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

He's spruced up the White House, lamented that his new ballroom won't be finished in time and ensured a new marble helipad is ready to show off to the Chinese leader.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“There has to be change,” Hammer told a ballroom of Cuban-American lawyers at a February bar association gala in Miami.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

‘Owch!’ he cried, blowing a mouthful across the ballroom.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

He told me that during his childhood, Eid prayers were sometimes held in hotel ballrooms because mosques were too few and too small.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Fans could previously wed at courtyards and ballrooms at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel, at the Disneyland Hotel ballroom, in the Fantasyland Faire Garden and at Sleeping Beauty’s Castle Forecourt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

Demos, presentations and meetings will take place in a massive convention center as well as ballrooms and suites throughout the city.

From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026

Firms that had banner years would lay siege to hotel ballrooms, trumpeting their good fortune with rip-roaring excesses more suited to an Indian wedding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Before I got fired for accusing Mr. White Manager of wearing a hairpiece, I used to clean the ballrooms at the Robert E. Lee Hotel.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett




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