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Recent Examples of jitterbugFranzke, who loved to jitterbug as a kid, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945, flying Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers off the carrier USS Saginaw Bay in the Pacific.—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2020 Patti jitterbugging to a Les Paul and Mary Ford record.—Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020 Against these, Davis superimposes the bright, almost jitterbugging mosaic pattern on the mother’s spandex pants.—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020 Bush caught a screen pass and jitterbugged past a diving tackler and exploded into the open field.—Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017 See All Example Sentences for jitterbug
Strictly Come Dancing presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman both waltzed away from the birthday honors with MBEs, while former BBC presenter Martha Kearney got a CBE.
Behind the scenes, some big-hitting producers were recognized for their work in the television industry.
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Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
13 June 2025
Novi Brown, producer, actress, and co-star of Tyler Perry’s Sistas, waltzed into the 25th Anniversary BET Awards with a level of glam that can only be described as timeless and scene-stealing.
Florida’s 18-year-old sophomore arrived this month after a season at Arkansas ready to tango with fellow transfer Xaivian Lee of Princeton sure to have the Gators dancing again in March.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
June 19: Moon nears Saturn Around 2 a.m. local time on June 19, the half-moon and vivid Saturn will tango together in the eastern sky.
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Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
2 June 2025
Curaçao August is great for: retro-minded music fans ready to boogie.
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Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
26 May 2025
Popular since at least the early 1970s, poppers were thought to enhance pleasure in the bedroom and while boogieing on disco dance floors to anthems by the likes of Donna Summer and Loleatta Holloway.
The Alan Menken songs will get your head bopping amid the retro narrative about a nerdy flower guy (Rich Moranis) who has a crush on a co-worker (Ellen Greene) and develops a co-dependent friendship with a man-eating plant.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
There’s only so many (restaurant) options, and everyone’s bopping around to the same spot.
Be Courtesy To Other Shoppers To a Southerner, manners are top of mind, so pushing, shoving, and being rude over buying things doesn’t jive with a genteel way of life.
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Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2025
From electronics to delicate fabrics, natural stone, and more, there are a variety of surfaces and materials that just don’t jive with this household cleaning staple.
Larry Bowa still remembers the two kids, sons of Philadelphia Phillies catcher Bob Boone, shagging fly balls in the outfield at the old Veterans Stadium.
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Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
Iglesias said shagged in the outfield the last few days in case he’d be needed.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
Nicolo Barella would often drop between Stefan de Vrij and right centre-back Matteo Darmian or pull wide outside of Urawa’s defensive block to kickstart Inter’s possession, meaning the Japanese side were comfortable shuffling from side to side with the game in front of them.
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James Horncastle,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
The latest major example of this reliable horror subgenre shuffling (or in this case running) into theaters is 28 Years Later.
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