ballerina
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This last meant not just physical security and strength but harmonious coordination with his ballerina in ways that enriched the choreographic impact of both in their duets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
A native of Brazil, she was a professional ballerina in Austria for nine months before moving to America to attend MIT, where she met her co-founder, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
She moved like the most elegant ballerina, like she could fly if she set her mind to it.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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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
Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.
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
His movies are almost always about characters at risk of squandering their potential, be they ballerinas, wrestlers, mathematicians or baseball players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
“The man-eating tigers, the spinning blades...But I still think a few ballerinas would be nice.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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