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ballerina

[bal-uh-ree-nuh] / ˌbæl əˈri nə /
NOUN
prima ballerina
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A dancer who became Britain's first black professional ballerina has had her pointed shoes restored on the television programme, The Repair Shop.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

A native of Brazil, she was a professional ballerina in Austria for nine months before moving to America to attend MIT, where she met her co-founder, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

It’s not Jackie Burkhart on That ’70s Show, the breakout role she landed when she was 14, or the ballerina Lily in the critically acclaimed thriller Black Swan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

What I had only been able to imagine when I first looked at the magazine picture of the ballerina had now become reality.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince




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