disco
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“The disco dancing wasn’t really that hard for me because I grew up loving ’70s music, so I’d always dance in my room to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Singer Callum Beattie's rendition of Baccara's Yes Sir, I Can Boogie – the 1970s disco tune recently adopted as Scotland's unofficial anthem - had the Scottish athletes dancing in their seats.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Later, in 1970s Manhattan, a quirky egalitarianism infused the city’s most famous disco, Studio 54.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Victor Willis, lead singer of the disco group Village People whose hit "Y.M.C.A." became a fixture at rallies for US President Donald Trump, has died, his spouse said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
And after a whole Sunday of that—you didn't miss much—the simple ding-dong of the doorbell this morning basically sounded like disco to me.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
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I could hear all the traffic in L.A. coming to my house at two o’clock when the pubs and the discos closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Lewis English, a consultant for the Acoustic Fish Deterrence Delivery Group, says the lives of 182 million fish a year are on the line and that fish discos effectively scatter their patrons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
As a student, she would host others before college discos, blasting out Destiny's Child songs and dressing up in her room.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
Ironically, in 1977, the year that Studio 54 opened its doors to a chosen few, 5,000 discos opened across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Then Mrs. Kurtz hip-bumped me, the way people did when they danced at discos in the seventies.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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Bill and his partner Emma Slater discoed to Cher’s “Strong Enough,” much to everyone’s amusement and horror.
From Time ● Nov. 5, 2013
The 'runners' wined and dined and discoed, and now they are back to treating us like we didn't exist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Manhattan's Central Park, the box phe nomenon has linked up with the roller-skating craze to produce a bizarre form of discoing that not only defies description but se riously discourages it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mariana says he "is a pretty good dancer, but he would be real good if we could go discoing more often."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Christina's whirl is now Manhattan, where she went discoing at Studio 54 last week with Nikos Boukis, a childhood friend whose family is also into ships.
From Time Magazine Archive
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