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In an era of digital overwhelm and social isolation, gathering around a table, shuffling tiles and building order out of chaos together feels like exactly what people are reaching for right now.
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The model of shuffling that the new result depends on, like Bayer and Diaconis’ before it, still assumes that the cards riffle down one by one, rather than in clumps.
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The handful of cops were bopping to Michael Jackson.
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There is a bopping, rhythmic assonance to Ginsberg’s unspooling lines, more incantation than poetry.
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Targeting inefficiencies in squid jigging Industrial squid fishing typically relies on a method known as jigging.
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My favorite way to work a Texas rig is jigging it.
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This prancing herd of wild mustangs can be spotted from the river, on a kayak or inner tube.
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The music video shows Rodrigo prancing around the actual Palace of Versailles, in a controversial babydoll dress singing about a boy looking like an angel on its walls.
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There’s no games, no shucking and jiving, everybody is really bringing their A-game.
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The crowd claps and cheers, screaming wildly when Buteau drops it rather politely before strutting with Peppermint to their seats on stage.
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This year is yet another for the World Cup; Yu Masui and Takeji Hirakawa are still strutting their stuff, and Phil Oh, along with Acielle Tanbetova, will be documenting all the off-the-runway action.
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“Waltzing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waltzing. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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