tango
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His culpability is more complicated, but it really does take two to tango.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Exercise options included familiar activities such as salsa and tango, along with outdoor group workouts in public parks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
In one sequence, a solemn Gregorian chant pivots to a tango as Grace and Rocky’s ships connect airlock-to-airlock in spinning orbit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The only time we lifted our eyes from Cletus’s suitcase was when Ob wanted to watch those two Barbie and Ken dolls dance the tango.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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But after weeks of tangos, salsas and foxtrots, it was Carney and Gu's night as they topped the public vote.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Kardashian’s most recent real-life legal tangos includes filing a lawsuit with her mother, Kris Jenner, against ex-boyfriend Ray J for defamation and false-light publicity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
He took a warm, supportive but critical approach as he watched celebrities taking on tangos and waltzes, adding a down-to-earth touch to the otherwise frequently flamboyant panel of judges.
From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023
The “Las Polacas” score, he said, includes tunes with Slavic and Jewish folk influences as well as early-style tangos, “plus a little bit of cabaret in the Brecht/Weill vein.”
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2015
The memory of what was and the sight of what is clash together in my mind like tangos in two different keys.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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And perhaps even more than in her sticky-sweet pas de deux with Oh, there’s something sorrowful yet hopeful about her unpredictable tangoes with Kim Bodnia, who plays her original handler, Konstantin.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2019
So were dance halls, until Santiago authorities reflected that slow, intimate Chilean tangoes would be just right for spreading typhus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At this time he danced the danzon at least as well as Edward of Wales tangoes today, was in fact, a noted cavalier.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sue foxes like she was born in a fox hole under a hollow log, but she tangoes like the original Emperor Tang himself, so go ahead and suit yourself.
From The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess
In “One From the Heart,” Coppola gave her an early lead role, and Garr — a former professional dancer — tangoed down a Las Vegas street with Frederic Forrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
The impact has tangoed off the Strictly dance floor and into venues across the country, with many seeing a surge in people wanting to sign up for classes and competitions.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021
The clip was the coolest thing in politics since Barack Obama tangoed in Argentina.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2019
If he’d been wearing a hat, he’d have tipped it as they tangoed on by.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2017
"Maybe the Times Building just tangoed across the square an' fell on me!" he went on with ponderous sarcasm.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
However, towards the end of the video, the man is dramatically revealed to be John Travolta, who finishes the clip by tangoing with two women.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2019
If my agent sold my next novel for seven figures, I'd still have burn marks on my arms from tangoing with sheet pans.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2018
Twitter and other social media sites were abuzz with photo-shopped images of Obama tangoing superimposed over scenes of carnage.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2016
In 2000, Rickman appeared as Sharleen Spiteri’s love interest in the music video for Texas’s 2000 hit ‘In Demand’, which involves them tangoing at a petrol station.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2016
I coughed again, and backpedaled, the Eagle and I tangoing our way toward his living room.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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