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as in stepping
to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music
she can't resist dancing to her favorite rock bands
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as in darting
to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements
the lithe boxer danced around the ring, staying just out of the reach of his opponent
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Recent Examples of dancing
The pre-match party was packed with hundreds of people at the Discovery Center with Caribbean music, Haitian food and plenty of dancing.
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Dan Snyder,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
Season 5 opens with Roddy dancing through London.
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
19 June 2026
The light is dancing magically over the water making everything look luminous.
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Alysia Reiner,
Flow Space,
18 June 2026
And also to revisit a lovesick Gael García Bernal and Timothée Chalamet dancing to the Psychedelic Furs.
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Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
Fiction can be tempting when facts prove elusive, and Tannahill’s series cherishes dancing between the demanding allure of the unknown and the fearful certainty of what can happen when pursuing it.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
12 June 2026
This is a story of a community that lived joyfully and out loud, dancing to Spanish verse set to Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
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Rev. José Rodriguez,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
An elderly woman recalling dancing with her husband, now gone.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
There was dancing around (and on) the tables.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
11 June 2026
Dan Snyder,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
Season 5 opens with Roddy dancing through London.
—
K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
19 June 2026
The light is dancing magically over the water making everything look luminous.
—
Alysia Reiner,
Flow Space,
18 June 2026
And also to revisit a lovesick Gael García Bernal and Timothée Chalamet dancing to the Psychedelic Furs.
—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
Fiction can be tempting when facts prove elusive, and Tannahill’s series cherishes dancing between the demanding allure of the unknown and the fearful certainty of what can happen when pursuing it.
—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
12 June 2026
This is a story of a community that lived joyfully and out loud, dancing to Spanish verse set to Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
—
Rev. José Rodriguez,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
An elderly woman recalling dancing with her husband, now gone.
—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
There was dancing around (and on) the tables.
—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dancing
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Others always put on their equipment in the same order or avoid stepping on the foul line.
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Second-half substitute Romelu Lukaku played a decisive role in Belgium’s opener, helping his team score just 22 seconds after stepping onto the pitch.
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Sweden’s Hien had no idea how to stop Brobbey’s darting runs when looking to connect with crosses from out wide and the striker routinely bullies bigger boys before either scoring or creating for others.
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The Griz constantly pumps the rod to get his bait darting forward and then dropping back.
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The crowd claps and cheers, screaming wildly when Buteau drops it rather politely before strutting with Peppermint to their seats on stage.
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This year is yet another for the World Cup; Yu Masui and Takeji Hirakawa are still strutting their stuff, and Phil Oh, along with Acielle Tanbetova, will be documenting all the off-the-runway action.
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Within moments, someone pointed out a starling flitting across the hazy sky.
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The stairs bear witness to feet, flitting up and down, a whispering flood of life that has carried us forth to this day.
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In an era of digital overwhelm and social isolation, gathering around a table, shuffling tiles and building order out of chaos together feels like exactly what people are reaching for right now.
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The model of shuffling that the new result depends on, like Bayer and Diaconis’ before it, still assumes that the cards riffle down one by one, rather than in clumps.
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In Second Nature, scientists theorize that Darwin couldn’t help but impose his own heterosexual ideations on animal reproduction, mainly that animals only copulate for the purposes of reproduction, with males being the aggressors and females fluttering their eyelids behind lace fans, or something.
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Twice during the game at the Lincoln Financial Field, the Brazil fans unfurled a fluttering banner celebrating five icons of five World Cup-winning teams; Didi, Garrincha, Pele, Romario and Ronaldo.
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The soon-to-be 26-year-old left winger scored at the end of the first half on a breakaway, casually flicking the ball past Haitian goalkeeper Johny Placide.
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The Americans were less cohesive without Pulisic in the second half, but Reyna still added the finishing touch by gliding into the box and toe-flicking home his first World Cup goal.
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Anthony Maglione was flying from Pittsburgh to Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida, via Philadelphia on March 16 and started having issues soon after his first flight.
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Federal prosecutors have said conspirators in the alleged plot discussed flying drones loaded with explosives over the event and then shooting into the fleeing crowd.
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“Dancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dancing. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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