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Recent Examples of tango
From line dancing to tango to swing, Denver’s dance halls offer something for every groove.
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Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2025
Natalia teaches him how to tango.
—Ilya Kaminsky
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Real sharks dance with shark handlers, with legitimate danger
The loose competition features five contestants, all professional shark wranglers, grooving to tunes underwater with whichever swimming predator wants to tango.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 July 2025
The first film saw Pattinson's Dark Knight tangoing with the Riddler (Paul Dano), a serial killer plaguing Gotham City.
—EW.com, 28 June 2025
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Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2025
Natalia teaches him how to tango.
—Ilya Kaminsky
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Real sharks dance with shark handlers, with legitimate danger
The loose competition features five contestants, all professional shark wranglers, grooving to tunes underwater with whichever swimming predator wants to tango.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 July 2025
The first film saw Pattinson's Dark Knight tangoing with the Riddler (Paul Dano), a serial killer plaguing Gotham City.
—EW.com, 28 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tango
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From beating the mighty Oklahoma Sooners in overtime in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl to waltzing deep into SEC country and defeating the Georgia Bulldogs in the Georgia Dome, the Broncos rarely shied away from a challenge.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
12 Dec. 2025
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Playing against a Bulls defense ranked near the bottom of the league in most defensive categories, the Warriors waltzed into open jump shots and layups for most of the night.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
8 Dec. 2025
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Summer is winding down in North Texas, but there’s still plenty of fun activities around the area for those looking to boogie over the weekend.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Aug. 2025
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John Travolta With Pulp Fiction, John Travolta boogied his way back into pop culture relevance and onto his first of eight EW covers.—
Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Clifton Daniel, for instance, jitterbugged with an expertise that increased one’s respect for The New York Times.—
Gloria Steinem,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2024
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Linders says the audience for trad jazz can generally be put into three categories: There are swing dancers who are eager to jitterbug to some hot sounds.—
Noah Schaffer,
BostonGlobe.com,
21 Aug. 2023
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Recent trends in kitchen designs have focused on creating spaces that jive with open floor plans, which often requires reducing visual and physical clutter.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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The K-pop boy band Cortis arrived with an entourage of handlers and bopped around to their own music; the trance DJ Armin van Buuren got stony-serious on the topic of his new, piano-only album.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
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Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty bring crackling wit and easy chemistry to a mismatched pair bopping between boroughs.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
12 Dec. 2025
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Notably, as Eric and Carol were chatting to Sara, BBC Studios was re-jigging its APAC division in order to bring Australia and Asia under one roof.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
14 Nov. 2025
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The fang gang present themselves as yearning European folk enthusiasts and later as jigging fiends and sometime metalheads.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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It’s dressed with a vintage phone, a stack of throwback Playboy magazines, a mirrored top, and an orange ’70s shag rug on the second tier.—
Brittany Anas,
Denver Post,
9 Dec. 2025
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There would be no throws, no fly balls shagged, no grounders fielded.—
Ben Watanabe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
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Even with my winter boots and sturdy soles, caution dictates a short stride, a shuffling gait end eyes riveted to the slippery ground.—
Thomas Cangelosi,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2026
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First, the sophomore shuffled back into coverage after showing A-gap pressure to intercept a Bryce Underwood pass over the middle of the field, ending a key fourth-quarter drive.—
David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Tango.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tango. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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