Thesaurus results for SQUARE DANCE

square dance

noun

Definition of square dance

as in celebration

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Recent Examples of square dance And the evening winds down with a festival-wide square dance led by KC Heil’s All-Star Dance Band. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2026 For less than $100, Sacramento travelers can experience the night-life of Las Vegas, square dance in Texas and get coffee in Seattle. — Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026 Dancers demonstrate the quadrille—a square dance of French origin accompanied by traditional quelbe folk music. — Nikki Miller-Ka, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2026 The Wranglers Sq6uare Dance Club is starting a new learn to square dance class. — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for square dance

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Noun

The dinner capped a long, but friendly, day of meetings and celebrations, as the world’s two most powerful leaders seek to settle trade differences while simultaneously thawing the icy relationship between the United States and China.

— Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026
Beginning with a full museum activation on Thursday, the celebrations extend through the rest of the weekend, both at the museum's National Mall home and The Wharf, located along the historic Washington Channel of the Potomac River.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of celebration

Noun

But for the second straight week, Kelce had game-bests in receptions and receiving yards as the Chiefs beat the Colts 33-30 in overtime Sunday night at Arrowhead Stadium.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Receivers Asaad Waseem and Xavier Townsend combined for 14 receptions, 311 yards and two touchdowns.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of reception

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Hang Out On The Lawrenceville Lawn Another place at the heart of the community is the Lawrenceville Lawn, a giant greenspace that hosts regular events, concerts, and festivals.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026
The festival’s opening and some of its program have backing from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of festival

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The songs were a dangerous dance with gender, sexuality, and race.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
Dancing With the Stars contestants, England notes, are more and more commonly coming to the competition with actual dance backgrounds and could thus be of interest; people from the Bollywood or K-pop worlds are also intriguing.

— Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dance

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Each team's lone victory this season came in blowout fashion over West Georgia of the lower-tier Football Championship Subdivision.

— Michael Harley, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
YouTube and TikTok connected me to tutorial videos, teaching me how to achieve a blowout and a silk-ish press that lasted one day.

— Rachel Cook Northway, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of blowout

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Each show has a different theme that will transport you to an over-the-top setting, from a masquerade ball to old Hollywood.

— Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2026
That kind of cynicism is cheap and facile and masquerades as intelligence and erudition.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of masquerade

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Meta also says the platform will support more than 100 immersive live sports events each year through partners including ESPN and TNT Sports.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
The Hugging Face hack may have prompted an internal review, during which OpenAI also discovered the Australian website breach, although the company did not explicitly link the two events in its statement.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of event

Noun

Holmes has been busy lately, from attending the Metropolitan Opera opening night gala on Tuesday to sitting front row at the Tod’s spring 2027 show at Milan Fashion Week on Friday.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
This can enable a nonprofit to diversify funding beyond annual galas or grant cycles.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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