pirouette
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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
VAR disallowed the goal because they've said it's a careless challenge - but it's not a challenge, it's a pirouette in the middle of the pitch.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
During so-called learning walks, the animals then explore the immediate surroundings around the nest entrance and repeatedly pirouette around their own body axis with short stops in between.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
"I had the time of my life there. It's not a stage-stage school, but of course there's kids doing pirouettes and going 'Aaaaaahhhhh!' in the hallways," Adele told BBC 4 radio in 2022.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Collins noticed her ballet pirouettes suffered during her luteal phase; Gomez saw women pushing through heated Pilates classes until they nearly passed out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
As Abigail pirouettes down the hallway after a victim, there it is, finally: A ballet dancer having fun onscreen.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
It was his dance teacher who filmed the young boy in June 2020 as he practised pirouettes barefoot in the rain.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023
Nancy watched George, Bess, and some of the other dancers practicing pirouettes with Mr. McGuire's help.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
She pirouetted and handed me a single flower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Trailing by a TD, Penix pirouetted out of a sure sack, scampered to the left sideline and heaved a missile that Culp somehow came down with over three Trojan defenders.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
As an orchestra played jazz standards like “In the Mood,” she pirouetted across the stage in a Grecian gown or a floor-length dress with a slit up to the hip.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
The toads pirouetted and leapt gracefully with the music as they made their way to their team members.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Playing the Dead’s “Blues for Allah” on this tour — an LP rooted in Middle Eastern scales, pirouetting time signatures and improvisational telepathy — put him in communion with his old friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Feverishly pursued by a formidable gangster known only as the Maraboo, Jonas transforms into Barbara, a veritable bombshell with billowing bronze locks, pirouetting alongside Nelly in glittering jumpsuits for a spellbound crowd.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Elsewhere in the country, ballets are also pirouetting up from the page.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2023
His incredible skill, balletic balance and pirouetting moves bamboozled Brazil, and his free kick set up Henry for a volley - the only goal of the match.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
When he swept back inside, pirouetting my mother, it seemed the perfect moment to ask.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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