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ballerina

[bal-uh-ree-nuh] / ˌbæl əˈri nə /
NOUN
prima 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

Ballet core may be a recent trend in name, but little girls, including me, have always revered a ballerina.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Suwa nevertheless instilled in the fledgling ballerina a discipline and rigor that would carry Morishita through her career.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

In a 2003 interview with Hello! magazine, Lord Snowdon named weekend guests such as the ballerina Margot Fonteyn, financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, comedian Peter Sellers, actor Sir John Mills, and author Edna O’Brien.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Three ballerina jewelry boxes stand open, the little dancers with their arms over their heads.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

“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

As for the ballet itself, she was too distracted by her sewing to follow the story closely, but it involved a great many ballerinas dressed as birds doing complicated dance steps.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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