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Recent Examples of pirouette
Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The performers strut and bounce and pirouette and leap into and out of costumes.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
But the pirouettes Amador did on the mound were greeted even more enthusiastically than his throw.
—David Lyman, The Enquirer, 18 Dec. 2024
Jude Bellingham’s dainty pirouette briefly sends my heart rate fluttering over 80bpm.
—James McNicholas, The Athletic, 8 July 2024
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Noun
Elizabeth Tapia performed her Crocodile role with agile jumps and pirouettes while a half dozen Fish dancers performed a frisky conga line behind her.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for pirouette
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Gerrit Cole's Tommy John surgery created one more opening in the rotation.—
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Barring any setbacks, both pitchers could conceivably rejoin the Red Sox rotation by mid-April.—
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The dining room on the floor below has deep red carpets, gold chairs, burl wood walls in a herringbone pattern and reflective metallic paint on the ceiling that intensifies the rotating 360 degree views.—
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Powered by the automatic Rolex cal. 3175, its GMT hand was still slaved to the local hour hand, meaning that a second time zone could only be tracked using the rotating bezel.—
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Some of them assented to a ceremonial final flight, a last twirl for the cameras and dignitaries, like the Parisian leg of the Tour de France.—
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Every awards show, including at last night’s 2025 Oscars, director Cole Walliser and his crew take their premium spot on the step and repeat, and proceed to capture A-list stars doing their best twirls and poses for both high-speed and slow-motion video clips.—
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Theories about this phenomenon revolve largely around the way that a pitcher trains during the off-season, though experts have yet to come to a consensus.—
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Jennifer Lopez, for one, revolved her put-together look around a pair of white wide-leg trousers.—
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Give these new tunes a spin and vote for your favorite new Latin music release below.—
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No matter the temperature outside, heated yoga, Pilates or spin classes are drawing in those eager to sweat it out.—
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Acevedo was impressed with Gilliland’s command of the curve.—
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More and more companies are ahead of the curve on this type of reporting, disclosing non-financial data in their annual reports alongside their revenue and profit figures.—
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Each round is based on a single word from a category card determined by a dice roll, but while everyone else knows the word, the chameleon has to bluff their way through.—
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These agencies would then be required to share data with states upon request, like immigration records or Social Security numbers, to confirm eligibility of the names on their voting rolls.—
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“Pirouette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pirouette. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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