fox-trotted

past tense of fox-trot

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Verb
  • After about 10 minutes of sitting frozen in place, the seven-year-old shuffled out of the room with his mother, sister and grandmother.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • The outsize failings of the men in power demand a grand reimagining of the consequences of those failings, and Helen of Nowhere offers up, exhilaratingly and naughtily, a myth for the man who needs to be shuffled offstage one way or another.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • At 16, Avtan bopped around her bedroom in West Hills to the digital hardcore and gabber of acts like Lolita Storm.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
  • After being bored and bopped to death by the Los Angeles Kings in the first round, Sunday proved to be a breath of fresh air, at least as far as pace goes.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • The high school musical romance Grease hand-jived its way into theaters during the summer of 1978.
    Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Sarah Michelle Gellar strutted in the purple platform boots of the fashionable and upbeat Daphne Blake in both live-action Scooby-Doo flicks.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 June 2026
  • The 53-year-old model strutted her stuff in Miami Beach, Florida wearing a set of equally stunning one-piece swimsuits.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Troy — who is a Pony of the Americas, according to his owners, the Beaulieu family — pranced around his yard upon exiting the hospital trailer, receiving pets and apples.
    Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Fox-trotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fox-trotted. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.

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