juggler

A juggler too advanced for the circus, language’s great folk hero.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

There was a rock band, strobe lights, and a juggler.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025

So now I'm a writer and a hustler: coach, software entrepreneur, ghostwriter, teacher, juggler — my decision.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024

After dessert, Milton took a handkerchief out of his back pocket, unscrewed the hot lightbulb, and, tossing it like an unambitious juggler, conveyed it into the living room.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Your goal is to get to the Venice Pier, an even more colorful, carnival-like spot with everything from jugglers to bodybuilders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

Stilt walkers, dancers and jugglers with LED clubs entertained the crowds that came to see the spectacle, coordinated by Pontypridd-based Citrus Arts.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2023

McDermott’s production similarly exposes its performers: not only the singers but also a dozen jugglers in catsuits, including Sean Gandini, the show’s choreographer.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2022

These settings are sometimes populated by characters — clowns, jugglers, harlequins and the like — familiar to theater from Italian commedia dell’arte.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022

I remember it was a kind of collage, full of cutout pictures of circus life, with clowns and acrobats and jugglers and horses, and elephants, of course, lots of elephants.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo