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to work out the details of (something) in advance
the advance team completely choreographed the candidate's campaign appearances
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Recent Examples of choreographed
There is an emotional or narrative reason for each encounter, choreographed by intimacy coordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt.
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Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
In a plain convention center, the chaos moved along as if choreographed, a parade in which everyone marched.
—Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Ava Wagner choreographed her former team's jazz this year, which earned a third-place finish.
—Marielle Mohs, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
Konrad has choreographed for KC Ballet in the past and has been in the ballet scene for over 20 years.
—Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026
Clearly choreographed sequences with Melania and her fashion designer, Melania and her architects, Melania and her staff, Melania talking via Zoom to the French first lady Brigitte Macron and on and on.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
There’s a car chase through the countryside that’s all straining steel and revving engines and a sequence in a London nightclub — every action movie apparently needs one — that shows off close-quarter murder beautifully choreographed as clueless dancers sway.
—Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
For her 23rd birthday, Maxwell shared a mood board that included the 2005 Japanese comedy Linda Linda Linda, Nicole Kidman smoking a cigarette at Cannes in 2003, and the pas de deux from the ballet Le Parc (1994), choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj.
—P. Claire Dodson, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2026
Directed and choreographed by Kenny Ortega (Hocus Pocus, Newsies), High School Musical centers around basketball player Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), as the captain of the basketball team.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
In a plain convention center, the chaos moved along as if choreographed, a parade in which everyone marched.
—Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Ava Wagner choreographed her former team's jazz this year, which earned a third-place finish.
—Marielle Mohs, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
Konrad has choreographed for KC Ballet in the past and has been in the ballet scene for over 20 years.
—Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026
Clearly choreographed sequences with Melania and her fashion designer, Melania and her architects, Melania and her staff, Melania talking via Zoom to the French first lady Brigitte Macron and on and on.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
There’s a car chase through the countryside that’s all straining steel and revving engines and a sequence in a London nightclub — every action movie apparently needs one — that shows off close-quarter murder beautifully choreographed as clueless dancers sway.
—Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
For her 23rd birthday, Maxwell shared a mood board that included the 2005 Japanese comedy Linda Linda Linda, Nicole Kidman smoking a cigarette at Cannes in 2003, and the pas de deux from the ballet Le Parc (1994), choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj.
—P. Claire Dodson, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2026
Directed and choreographed by Kenny Ortega (Hocus Pocus, Newsies), High School Musical centers around basketball player Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), as the captain of the basketball team.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for choreographed
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About an hour later, SpaceX confirmed the satellites (Group 17-33) had been deployed as planned.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Like many nations across the world, Australia has experienced sharp divisions over Israel’s war in Gaza that have spilled into protests – with more planned in as many as 30 cities nationwide on Monday to mark Herzog’s visit.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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The transfer shell game The problems compound when ICE transfers detainees without notice, a practice attorneys said is a kind of shell game designed to frustrate legal challenges.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Feb. 2026
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The letter campaign was organized by the Indiana Association of the Deaf.—
Claire Rafford,
IndyStar,
9 Feb. 2026
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The project was organized by a group of cryptocurrency investors who raised $300,000 for it and have been using it to hype a memecoin called $PATRIOT.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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Noni juice is a tropical beverage prepared from fresh, ripe noni fruits.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Student reporters at PantherNOW, FIU’s student newspaper, have reported that as space is prioritized for freshmen and parts of University Apartments are prepared for demolition, more upperclassmen are being pushed off campus.—
Johane Saintil,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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Two days after Jamarrien Monroe and his 5-year-old cousin were killed, police arrested Tyreion Nixon-Clark in connection with an unrelated homicide motivated by robbery in which the suspect arranged a meeting that the victim thought was to be a rifle sale, authorities said.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated February 6,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2026
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Kimani parked beside a clearing where chairs had been arranged around a fire.—
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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The regular season couldn’t have been plotted any better for these two from an anticipation standpoint, set to near the end as the top teams in the MIAA Div.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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Michael Sheridan was beaten, stabbed, shot At some point, the brothers plotted to rob the other man, investigators said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Florida’s current rules cap out-of-state enrollment at 10% of the university population, but that figure is calculated as an average for the state’s 12 public universities.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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Researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics last month calculated the investment pledges at $5 trillion from the EU, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.—
Paul Wiseman,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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