variants
or curveting
as in dancing
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That will be Ibrahim dancing, no doubt.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025 -
There will be traditional folk dancing along with games and contests.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2025
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Before leaping, aspiring founders would do well to plan not just their business model, but their emotional resilience, financial buffers, support systems and personal boundaries.—
Anuradha Gupta,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Fringed dresses, feather-like tops and skirts, and florals leaping from bikini tops and minidresses defined the show, which saw Elizabeth Gillies, NBA legend Joakim Noah and Sherri Shepherd front row.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
21 Sep. 2025
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Unlike the decades-spanning, city-hopping scope of the Before trilogy or Boyhood, the latest collaboration between the director Richard Linklater and the actor Ethan Hawke is small by design.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
20 Sep. 2025
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Chip, the 3-year-old miniature dachshund, was filmed bounding toward the open door but immediately reconsidering after inspecting the dreary conditions outside his home in England.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The state has yet to provide any contemporary evidence of doubt that this crosswalk — on the road bounding the southern edge of the Pulse property — was a fitting part of the memorial.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Aug. 2025
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Teens who got too little sleep were more likely to report carrying a weapon, fighting, skipping school out of fear, or being threatened or injured at school.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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While China and Japan both have versions of kimchi, those nations' dishes are more likely to be pickled, skipping the full fermentation process.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Sep. 2025
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Perry has been loping around the world on this tour for four months.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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One clip shows a man in a dark suit standing on the vessel’s side before springing into the water.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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John’s score nimbly dances with the pratfalls and springing traps, never leeching them of their primal, juvenile laughter, but also treating the film’s stuntmen with the same dignity as the Martha Graham ballet company.—
Tim Greiving,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Curvetting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvetting. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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