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
In another, the Balanchine ballerina Diana Adams struts around as a jealous, leggy hatcheck girl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
One of Japan’s most celebrated dancers, she is the prima ballerina in the storied Matsuyama Ballet Company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Monson de Kansky trained with the former Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina for three years, until her father inquired about her future.
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
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
It was the ringing of tiny tennis rackets against tiny snow skis, of miniature Eiffel Towers against half-inch ballerinas on point.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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