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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waltzed (up)
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That was when the team really turned up the defensive intensity on Thursday, dialing up a variety of coverages on Gilgeous-Alexander that kept the Thunder from going on any runs with Wemby out.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
29 May 2026 -
Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
29 May 2026
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Panish replayed for jurors testimony from Grossman’s daughter that, soon after the collision, Erickson arrived at the house smelling of alcohol.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Applegate refused to leave until police officers arrived, according to the detective, a threat management expert.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
2 June 2026
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The crowd that showed up included some of Kansas City’s most popular content creators — local TV crews, too.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
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Tellingly, none of those marks showed up on rhinoceros teeth from paleontological sites, where scientists had unearthed animal remains but no signs of human (of any sort) presence.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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Questions about the rumors eventually reached Pixar executives.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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Eastside Innovation, the developer trying to bring a billion-dollar, mixed-use development to the site where Indian Springs Mall once stood, has reached an impasse with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and KCK over a key sticking point.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 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
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Eventually one of RevMed’s chemistry teams came up with a way to use the glue concept to block all forms of the bad protein.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
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Then, Chambers came up behind Allen, ordered him to step away from the truck, grabbed his wrist and forced him to the ground.—
Rose Evans
Updated May 29,
Idaho Statesman,
29 May 2026
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Rarely translated into English, but revered in Japan for the purity of her classical language and her status as the country’s first professional woman writer, Ichiyo Higuchi drew on her own short life in a poor Tokyo neighbourhood to inspire her work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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The interiors drew on local textiles, the cabin libraries were chock-full of books on local flora and fauna.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
22 May 2026
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Even authors who refrained from killing off their female characters may as well have, for all the complexity their stick figures attained.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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That figure marks a significant drop from a recent peak attained in 2023, but borrowing costs remain well above a 0% rate established at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
28 May 2026
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“Waltzed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waltzed%20%28up%29. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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