Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waltzed (up)
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The Valkyries felt a different kind of weight, and coach Natalie Nakase turned up the heat, to get her players to dig deeper.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025 -
The law enforcement detachment aboard the destroyer boarded the Venezuelan craft and carried out a search that turned up no drugs, according to the official.—
Luis Martinez,
ABC News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Multiple White House officials arrived in their current jobs after working at Turning Point USA, the conservative outreach group that Kirk led and co-founded to energize Republicans on college campuses.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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If only this car had arrived a few months later during one of our brief bouts of winter rain.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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At the end of July, Caroline Stanbury was doing a podcast video talking about her skin-care line when her husband, Sergio Carrallo, showed up in the background nude from the waist down like an Italian, soccer-playing Donald Duck.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Miami voters won’t get the chance to decide on moving the city from odd- to even-year elections this November after only two out of five city commissioners showed up to a special meeting Friday.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Heading into 2025-26, nine players from Henrique’s 2008 draft class have reached 1,000 games.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Luis Matos, pinch-hitting for Drew Gilbert, reached base to start the inning when Betts made a throwing error.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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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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Indeed, Walt Disney himself came up with the idea for Disneyland during a visit to Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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This Einsteinian dismissal would later be reversed, but only after much more evidence poured in, and after many others came up, independently, with the same ideas that Lemaître put forth in his letter to Einstein.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But, as time drew on, Cola grew in confidence and learned how to adapt to life on two legs.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The following pivot to event curation happened organically, and drew on everything Zadeh had learned about luxury positioning and brand storytelling.—
Angela Lei,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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If all three can't be attained in one venue, choose a venue that affords all three within reasonable walking distance.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The show has had its ups and downs over the years but has attained the sturdiness of a cozy British mystery, the kind where bodies pile improbably high in otherwise charming villages and the format can, in theory, run forever.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Waltzed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waltzed%20%28up%29. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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