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
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
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
She was a ballerina, and that was what mattered most.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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“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
In the piece, young ballerinas are captured during a studio class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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
The Osage have long been linked to the world of classical dance, having produced two of the greatest ballerinas, the sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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