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Jayde Riviere and Hannah Blundell have both been used at right-back instead, but losing Batlle seems to have impacted United's entire right side, going forward and back.

From BBC

This rocking motion, forward and back, repeats for several minutes, until the stage is filled with bodies hovering on pointe, as if sustained by a single breath.

Increasingly intrigued by the mouse, he manages to be spry and grounded as he flitters on the balls of his feet and wavers forward and back His center of gravity seems elusive, more wispy than cemented to the floor, especially as he shifts from despising the mouse to desiring it.

Nearby, at a ballet studio, little girls and boys in T-shirts inscribed with, “Que Siga La Tradicion,” or “Keep the Tradition Alive,” clapped as they shuffled forward and back to a pulsating Afro-Cuban rhythm.

Wearing white unitards adorned with blue and red stars or a stripe down the side of the leg, the young dancers bounced on their feet before tilting forward and back to the propulsive beat.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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