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tango

[tang-goh] / ˈtæŋ goʊ /


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WASHINGTON—Ever since President Trump returned to office last January, he and the Supreme Court have been locked in an uneasy tango.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

They married in 2005 and for years practiced tango on a dance floor they installed in one of their barns.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

"So this tango will likely continue on for a while."

From BBC Feb. 16, 2026

Enter Mr. Hegseth, who takes tango lessons whenever Mr. Trump says dance.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

I couldn’t even think what a tango sounded like.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Kardashian’s most recent real-life legal tangos includes filing a lawsuit with her mother, Kris Jenner, against ex-boyfriend Ray J for defamation and false-light publicity.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2025

But after twelve weeks of tangos, salsas and foxtrots, this was Ellie and Vito's night.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2023

He took a warm, supportive but critical approach as he watched celebrities taking on tangos and waltzes, adding a down-to-earth touch to the otherwise frequently flamboyant panel of judges.

From Reuters Apr. 24, 2023

At Chez Régine, she served bottles of liquor instead of just cocktails and played a then-exotic mix of rumbas, tangos, merengues and rock songs.

From Washington Post May 2, 2022

Worse, she’s taken up ice dancing; she goes to classes at the local indoor rink, and tangos and waltzes in time to tinny music, holding hands with other women.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

And perhaps even more than in her sticky-sweet pas de deux with Oh, there’s something sorrowful yet hopeful about her unpredictable tangoes with Kim Bodnia, who plays her original handler, Konstantin.

From Slate Apr. 4, 2019

So were dance halls, until Santiago authorities reflected that slow, intimate Chilean tangoes would be just right for spreading typhus.

From Time Magazine Archive

In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this time he danced the danzon at least as well as Edward of Wales tangoes today, was in fact, a noted cavalier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disease, filth, white slavery, prize fights, tangoes, rottenness, and shame.

From Treading the Narrow Way by Barrett, R. E.

Gaynor, who famously tangoed with Reiner for her Emmy-winning 1976 special, “Mitzi...Roarin’ in the 20s,” fondly remembered him as “a genius, a good friend, & a true gent.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2020

Meanwhile, Greens pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm was all but matching Smoltz in excellence, though with pitches that tangoed more than darted.

From New York Times Mar. 26, 2020

"All I wanted was a dance party," bassist Este Haim told the BBC afterwards, "and then Glastonbury danced with me. We tangoed."

From BBC Jun. 25, 2017

I tangoed, two-stepped and did the cha-cha as I dealt with embarrassing diarrhea, frequent bowel incontinence and the necessity of knowing the location of a bathroom wherever I went.

From US News Mar. 28, 2016

It was Lord Coombe who told me about the old Duchess' dance—and that you tangoed or swooped—or kicked with my Robin.

From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

However, towards the end of the video, the man is dramatically revealed to be John Travolta, who finishes the clip by tangoing with two women.

From Fox News Aug. 7, 2019

If my agent sold my next novel for seven figures, I'd still have burn marks on my arms from tangoing with sheet pans.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2018

Twitter and other social media sites were abuzz with photo-shopped images of Obama tangoing superimposed over scenes of carnage.

From Washington Times Mar. 24, 2016

In 2000, Rickman appeared as Sharleen Spiteri’s love interest in the music video for Texas’s 2000 hit ‘In Demand’, which involves them tangoing at a petrol station.

From The Guardian Jan. 14, 2016

I coughed again, and backpedaled, the Eagle and I tangoing our way toward his living room.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green




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