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ballerina

[bal-uh-ree-nuh] / ˌbæl əˈri nə /
NOUN
prima ballerina
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The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

A native of Brazil, she was a professional ballerina in Austria for nine months before moving to America to attend MIT, where she met her co-founder, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

With the lithe, athletic body of the ballerina, she was nothing like her fellow models.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

It’s not Jackie Burkhart on That ’70s Show, the breakout role she landed when she was 14, or the ballerina Lily in the critically acclaimed thriller Black Swan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Spiders hatch and crawl out of my belly button, hairy little tar beads with ballerina feet.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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