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pirouette

[pir-oo-et] / ˌpɪr uˈɛt /














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But a startup going from iPhone apps to consumer hardware wasn’t so much a pivot as it was a whole entire pirouette—followed by a couple of back flips.

From The Wall Street Journal

Every turn, sweep, and pirouette channels the elements—a dip births a bolt of lightning arcing down from the sky.

From Literature

From morning till night it continued: the choosing of outfits, the practicing of pirouettes, the making of to-do lists.

From Literature

In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet, their conversation always pirouettes back to the gap between the real world and the movies.

From Los Angeles Times