variants
or curveting
as in dancing
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But what’s equally important to him is seeing non-Iranians dancing to Iranian music.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
1 May 2026 -
In a video shared on Instagram by Elite Event Robotics, a business that rents human-like robots for events, a child-sized robot could be seen dancing at a Southwest Airlines gate.—
Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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The Aztecs won 89-86 before an electric home crowd on a night that had 12 ties and 11 lead changes and seemed like five against six sometimes with the way UNLV coach Josh Pastner was prancing around the floor in a suit and tie while the ball was in play.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Diplomat, Slow Horses, and Paradise all feel like worthy nominees, but the fact that these three crowd-pleasing geopolitical conspiracy yarns have such overlap in their themes is going to keep any one of them from leaping ahead as a winner.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
2 May 2026
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The Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has taken over a gargantuan room to house his 2006 piece Head On, consisting of 99 life-size sculptures of wolves leaping ferociously through the air.—
Lale Arikoglu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 May 2026
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These include operating without GPS, using frequency hopping to counter jamming, and enabling one operator to manage multiple drones.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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However, many thought Tilson Thomas too brash and arrogant to lead an orchestra, and, around the same time, Tilson Thomas fell in with New York’s disco-hopping crowd.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Even after Bo Bichette’s two-out, bases-clearing double gave New York the lead, Brazobán came bounding out of the dugout.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2026
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An antelope on a ridge teasingly stares before bounding off up the rocky hill.—
Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
17 Apr. 2026
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Still, Felder is optimistic that consumers would still buy a FiberMaxxing Smoothie or Power Meal Spinach Pineapple Smoothie, rather than skipping the drink or making it at home.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
1 May 2026
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Other experts argue that skipping a month of mowing can do more harm than good.—
Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
1 May 2026
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An abduction sequence ties the audience’s nerves in knots with cinematographer Isaac Bauman’s athletic tracking shot loping up the stairs to Margot’s apartment accompanied by Gavin Brivik’s pulse-hammering score.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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The other two shots were right at the rim, while the Hawkeyes hit a loping 3-pointer.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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Hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel and his wife Susan are a billionaire power couple that has a history of springing into action come election season.—
Gabe Kaminsky,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Does springing forward in early March leave you feeling discombobulated during your commute?—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Curvetting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvetting. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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