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Noun
Étoile, the Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino vehicle canceled after one season on Amazon Prime, is awash in elegant shots of ballerina pirouettes and the opulent interior of the Opéra Garnier in Paris — which served as the inspiration for the novel The Phantom of the Opera.—Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025 During the display, streamers of green, white, pink, and violet light pirouette across the night sky.—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
During the pandemic, San Diego Ballet dancers were filmed pirouetting on the rooftop of The San Diego Museum of Art, surrounded by bird’s-eye views of Balboa Park.—Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pirouette
The team’s elite rotation of Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Ohtani has carried the load thus far.
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Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
Barring any setbacks he should be fully recovered in time for spring training and will be a strong candidate to start the season in the WooSox rotation.
The county, where per-capita personal income levels are nearly 40% higher than the national median, is also seen as a pioneer for its financing model, which created a revolving loan fund to replace private sources of equity and keep the units owned by the public.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
Beyond supernatural encounters, the Beaux-Arts hotel is also a glittering grande dame of the French Quarter, with a revolving carousel bar, pristine marble floors, and a wooden grandfather clock that’s chimed in the lobby since 1909.
Katie Holmes recently put her own spin on the pairing with a brown suede DeMellier shoulder bag.
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Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
New chart moves at country show its range in full swing –– from Dan + Shay’s Taylor Swift revival to Ella Langley’s Texas grit and Morgan Wallen’s British rock spin –– proving the genre’s biggest moments can come from anywhere.
For young tight ends especially, the biggest learning curve out of college is understanding how to block in the NFL.
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Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Baesakul symbolized the interconnection of humans and nature through an interlaced motif interpreted as leather lacing or metal hardware and applied to contemporary shapes that take cues from the Eiffel Tower’s silhouette, the curve of a capybara’s back or even the form of Baesakul’s pet corgi.
Now the best offense in the league rolls into town, and Denver’s own offense hasn’t quite shown the consistent capability to win in a shootout (last Sunday notwithstanding).
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