waltzing (up)

Definition of waltzing (up)next
present participle of waltz (up)

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Verb
  • The Daily Mail reported that she was expected to earn around $175,000 for turning up for about two hours at the event.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The three buildings are at the heart of Miyagawa-cho, where geiko and maiko can be observed entering their ochaya teahouses for the night or turning up for morning performing arts training at the Kaburenjo.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The priorities of the online right are showing up not just in rhetoric but also in policy.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Alyson Stoner, a former child actor who starred in movies like Cheaper by the Dozen, discussed her experience with child fame, including her face being superimposed on pornography and stalkers showing up during one of her dance lessons.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 29 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The school's annual trade show at the Javitz Center is coming up in April, which students work toward all year.
    Chris Wragge, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Desires are coming up against resistance for a reason.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Hacker, whose brother Jacob is a sophomore on the team and whose father Darrell was an all-state player at Highland, has been drawing on the Indians’ loss to Valparaiso in the sectional championship game last season for motivation.
    Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The fourth approach is human video learning, drawing on vast online datasets from platforms like YouTube and Douyin.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The cuts also include 53 non-teaching positions associated with schools that are closing in the 2026-27 school year, district spokesman John Sullivan said.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
  • As the show's other characters and astronauts are closing in on their Eighties, Nedivi and Wolbert were keen on reinforcing venerable characters with a younger generation.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Schultz died soon after arriving at the hospital, and Cronin died of his injuries on July 1.
    WCCO Staff, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Second-leading scorer Dillon Brooks will reprise his role as Warriors antagonist after arriving in the Durant trade alongside athletic bucket-getter Jalen Green, who attended Prolific Prep High in Napa.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Then, there’s the collective Electronic Disturbance Theater, which was actually creating an internet tool that people could use to track where ICE was coming into communities.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
  • During a press conference on Thursday, April 16, Wiseman, Glover and Koch, talked about their roller coaster of emotions since coming home.
    Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But annual budget deficits are now at $2 trillion, rapidly piling on to the $39 trillion national debt total with interest costs alone reaching $1 trillion a year.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Periods of rain will continue throughout the early and mid afternoon with high temperatures only reaching the mid-50s, below average for this time of year.
    Andrew Kozak, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
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“Waltzing (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waltzing%20%28up%29. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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