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Recent Examples of tango
Get The Recipe 14 of 30 Harvest Punch Give fresh apples and cinnamon time to tango so that all of their rich flavors can blend together before pouring yourself a glass.
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Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2025
Francis does love the dance – in 2014, thousands of Catholics tangoed in St. Peter’s Square to honor his birthday.
—Molly Jackson, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2025
Hartford Courant While there may be short term advantage for Mr. Trump, the danger is that our country turns into another Argentina – with basket case economic policies if not tango.
—Connecticut State Sen. Matthew Lesser, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025
Miles above the Earth, two bands of fast-moving air – the polar jet stream and the stratospheric polar vortex – sometimes tango together to influence weather in the northern hemisphere.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
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Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2025
Francis does love the dance – in 2014, thousands of Catholics tangoed in St. Peter’s Square to honor his birthday.
—Molly Jackson, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2025
Hartford Courant While there may be short term advantage for Mr. Trump, the danger is that our country turns into another Argentina – with basket case economic policies if not tango.
—Connecticut State Sen. Matthew Lesser, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025
Miles above the Earth, two bands of fast-moving air – the polar jet stream and the stratospheric polar vortex – sometimes tango together to influence weather in the northern hemisphere.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tango
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Downfield, Isaiah Simmons, Isaiah Dunn and Johnathan Baldwin all got stuck on blocks and Smartt waltzed into the endzone.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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At one point during Bertha’s ball, Gladys waltzes in her newfound bliss with the Duke.—
Zoe Papelis,
Vulture,
10 Aug. 2025
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Now that you're amped up for that John Hughes triple feature, why not boogie down with Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo for a few minutes to this eternal earworm?—
Jordan Hoffman Updated,
EW.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Curaçao August is great for: retro-minded music fans ready to boogie.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
26 May 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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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.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 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,
18 Apr. 2025
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There’s more pressing current affairs to attend to right now, and hell, there’s a new Lorde album to bop to.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
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There are several methods to get rid of mice, besides adopting a cat or employing Little Bunny Foo Foo to bop them on the head, of course.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
19 June 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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In the back bay especially, vertically jigging these lures around bridge pilings and across channels can be deadly.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2025
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Rivera, who always loved to shag flyballs during his playing days, hurt himself while manning center field during a Willie Randolph at-bat.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
9 Aug. 2025
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Rivera suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in May 2012 while shagging fly balls in batting practice in Kansas City, Mo.—
Larry Fleisher,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Aug. 2025
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From ones that incorporate fans to odes to classic binge-worthy TV, with the help of social media, everyone’s creative wheels are turning — and people are learning one new step after another, feet shuffling, turning, stepping with ease.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
4 Aug. 2025
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The coaching staff shuffled its depth chart, handing extra reps to players who had performed well over the previous nine practices and deserved a longer look.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Tango.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tango. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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