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
Or completing a double pirouette and finishing as gracefully as if I really did have wings.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
"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
And they’re all on TikTok doing, like, “I’ll do 50 pirouettes for ...” I’m like, “Please, I will pay you not to do 50 pirouettes on TikTok. Please just save your body for the stage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
For the next 30 minutes, the band are on fire, playing with purpose and swagger while Abigail pirouettes around the stage, dressed like Wednesday Addams playing a character from Bridgerton.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023
Shortly after launching on 1 July, the European space observatory Euclid started performing tiny, unexpected pirouettes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
Taylor flitted from spot to spot, turning pirouettes, waving to an unseen crowd.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Finally Tele'a, forced back into the fray on 66 minutes by an injury to Beauden Barrett having been replaced, pirouetted through Ford's tackle and held off Harry Randall to dot down.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
She pirouetted and handed me a single flower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
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
“See how she pirouetted away from that question about honoring precedent — beautiful hideballet there.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 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
She did it again on the very next possession, this time coming down from the top of the key, pirouetting into the paint and dropping in the easy two-footer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
In 2020, Anthony Madu’s dance teacher in Lagos, Nigeria, posted a video of the then 11-year-old student gracefully pirouetting and pulling off grand jetés barefoot in the rain.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
James Rodriguez stunned the crowd with a sensational strike, taking the ball on his chest just outside the D, before pirouetting and smashing an unstoppable volley into the top corner.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
I looked in the mirror at our reflection, at the twelve girls, sleek and shiny, pirouetting blurs of black, white and pink.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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