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[troop] / trup /


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He wanted to give back and later became a teacher himself before creating the Ghetto Kids dance troupe - formed of homeless children and those who could not afford school fees.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

A troupe of local performers enacted boxing and wrestling matches as the crowd cackled.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

An hour before the climb, I arrive at the Zimmerman Bandstand, where a troupe wearing Navy whites plays jaunty tunes.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

Trip had the quickest tongue of anyone in the troupe, which made him the best man for the job of making sure no one tried to fast-talk or bully their way inside.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Vaudeville troupes traveled the country by rail, performing at sites from small-town opera houses to urban theaters seating several thousand people.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 15, 2026

Until Friday, Amdjarass hosts dance troupes, musicians, traditional storytellers, craftspeople, cooks and nomadic camel drivers from across the vast region.

From Barron's Feb. 10, 2026

Tudyk’s comedy talent developed through extensive study beyond his time in improv troupes, at Julliard or as a Broadway performer.

From Salon Mar. 28, 2024

He honed his skills by working for a variety of regional theatre troupes, eventually joining London's Old Vic.

From BBC Nov. 19, 2023

He had seen them on the kingsroad, troupes of mothers and children and anxious fathers who had gazed on his horses and wagons with covetous eyes.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

So she did what came naturally to her: She trouped.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2016

We trouped down the stairs into a long, narrow, cavelike space burrowing into the hill, taken up almost entirely by a gleaming wood bar.

From Washington Post Sep. 8, 2015

Outfitted in caps and gowns, the singer Nellie McKay and her musicians trouped onto the stage of Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday evening with mischievous smirks on their faces.

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2012

Dooley Wilson trouped at the age of eight with Western medicine shows and circuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hastily donning fresh jungle gear supplied the night before in anticipation of the mission, the three cadets trouped wearily out of their rooms and rode down to the lobby in the vacuum elevator.

From The Revolt on Venus by Louis Glanzman

Not long now: The teams are out on the pitch, Sheffield United trouping out first, closely followed by Liverpool.

From The Guardian Oct. 24, 2020

That appeal has sent “Hamilton” trouping across the United States.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2017

Marlene Dietrich, still trouping for the troops, had her picture taken with her mother, Frau Josephine von Losch, at Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome; Dietrich's taste for tailored togs appeared to be hereditary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elizabeth Arden horses hit the road all year, trouping from track to track.

From Time Magazine Archive

And ten-twent-thirt trouping, and county-fair spieling, and selling Dr. Thunder Rapids' Choctaw Herbal Sensitizer.

From Free Air by Sinclair Lewis




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