troupe
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He wanted to give back and later became a teacher himself before creating the Ghetto Kids dance troupe - formed of homeless children and those who could not afford school fees.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
An hour before the climb, I arrive at the Zimmerman Bandstand, where a troupe wearing Navy whites plays jaunty tunes.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Is the thief a member of The Incredible Flying Squirrels circus troupe performing daring leaps in the attic?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The theater troupe laughed, and a few of them applauded as if Count Olaf had done something very brave instead of something despicable.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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Vaudeville troupes traveled the country by rail, performing at sites from small-town opera houses to urban theaters seating several thousand people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Until Friday, Amdjarass hosts dance troupes, musicians, traditional storytellers, craftspeople, cooks and nomadic camel drivers from across the vast region.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
The venues surveyed include the Opera House, the Concert Hall and the Eisenhower Theater, with performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, touring Broadway musicals and dance troupes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
Tudyk’s comedy talent developed through extensive study beyond his time in improv troupes, at Julliard or as a Broadway performer.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024
In another age, this hall had been dressing rooms and rehearsal spaces for the Yiddish theater troupes who made their home on Second Avenue.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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So she did what came naturally to her: She trouped.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
We trouped down the stairs into a long, narrow, cavelike space burrowing into the hill, taken up almost entirely by a gleaming wood bar.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015
More than 400 tour groups, from government agency planners to corporations to architects, have trouped through since the first employees moved in last summer.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
Less than 24 hours later, into Victor's recording studio on Manhattan's East Twenty-Fourth Street trouped 16 musicians, followed by Bandleader Vaughn Monroe, in polo coat, grey flannel suit, sunburst tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Of course we don't let people feed themselves or their beasts when they come here!" echoed Mrs. Warner, taking hold of Nealie and forcibly leading her into the house, while the others trouped after them.
From The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking by Bessie Marchant
Not long now: The teams are out on the pitch, Sheffield United trouping out first, closely followed by Liverpool.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2020
That appeal has sent “Hamilton” trouping across the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2017
Father Jack Cassidy and Mother Shirley Jones were trouping with their nightclub act until two days before Shaun was born.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Although she had done a good deal of miscellaneous operatic trouping, Soprano Resnik had never sung the taxing lead role of Leonora in Trovatore.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As Mrs. Vanderpool went in to lunch, reaction and lingering doubts came trouping back.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
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