ballerina
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The ballerina collaboration, Reichert said, would be part of the company’s efforts to hold consumers’ attention with new shoes and sandals in the years ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Ballet core may be a recent trend in name, but little girls, including me, have always revered a ballerina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
I have not had one since I was training to be a ballerina when I was a kid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Suwa nevertheless instilled in the fledgling ballerina a discipline and rigor that would carry Morishita through her career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The French critic Théophile Gautier wrote the great ballet Giselle and then fell deeply in love with its star ballerina.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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“Many of them have been stretched into new silhouettes of the Samba, for example, into both ballerinas, into mules, into Mary Janes.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
That meant that his first prominent patients weren’t point guards or centers but New York’s premier ballerinas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
But Giorgos Mavrogordatos, emeritus professor at the University of Athens criticised the evzone display as "extravagant figures resembling ballerinas for the pleasure of tourists".
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
He looked like one of those ballerinas that dance just on the tips of their toes.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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