ballerina
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After more than a decade abroad, it was time for the ballerina to return to America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Arriving at Eger’s home in La Jolla, she found ballerina paintings on the walls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
A dancer who became Britain's first black professional ballerina has had her pointed shoes restored on the television programme, The Repair Shop.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
Perhaps he was thinking of the paper ballerina he loved so much, or perhaps he wasn’t thinking at all.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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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
Of all the characters, she offers the best understanding of the compulsion ballerinas have to keep dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
The fairies were uniformly tall and beautiful, with the lithe musculature of professional ballerinas.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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