Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waltzed (up)
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In a message to families Wednesday, Twin Rivers turned up the heat on the union.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
5 Mar. 2026 -
The scan turned up no blood clots, but there was a small nodule in the patient’s lung.—
Emily Brindley,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
Verb
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For fashion, the Fall/Winter 2026 season arrived at a moment of heightened uncertainty, as wholesale continues its rocky reset and geopolitical uncertainty remains high.—
Madeleine Schulz,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2026
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One driver fled before officers arrived, while the other remained at the scene.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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They were both released after the meeting ended, when fellow protesters showed up at the jail and raised money to post their bail.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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The charter also embraced a mission as the neighborhood school — automatically accepting all who showed up at its doors.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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In its obituary for Milton Cross, who hosted those broadcasts from 1931 until his death in 1975, the New York Times estimated that regular audiences reached 14 million Americans, roughly 10% of the postwar population.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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The team quickly reached new deals with defensive backs Akayleb Evans and Robert Rochell on Monday.—
Mike Kaye
March 12,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Mar. 2026
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That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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In due time the architect came up with an undulating single-story blob that people hated.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
6 Mar. 2026
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Muzila came up with by himself.—
Thinus Ferreira,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The Islamic State’s tyranny drew on the cultural resources of the Middle East—Islam—while Assad’s tyranny drew upon a different but also uniquely Middle Eastern heritage, Arab nationalism.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Mummification experts at Saqqara drew on a continental network that supplied oils, tars and resins, combining these materials with specialized techniques of antisepsis, embalming, wrapping and coffin sealing.—
R. Alexander Bentley,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2026
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Alon had worked in the family’s security business in the Miami area, while Oren and Tal attained fame and fortune as luxury real estate brokers in New York City and Miami.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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Alireza Arafi, whose name has also come up as a potential successor, attained the rank of an ayatollah, or mujtahid, after publishing over 20 books and articles on Islamic jurisprudence and philosophy.—
Eric Lob,
The Conversation,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Waltzed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waltzed%20%28up%29. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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