pirouette
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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
VAR disallowed the goal because they've said it's a careless challenge - but it's not a challenge, it's a pirouette in the middle of the pitch.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
During so-called learning walks, the animals then explore the immediate surroundings around the nest entrance and repeatedly pirouette around their own body axis with short stops in between.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
My pubescent nerves did a pirouette in my stomach as we hung up, retreating to the haven of instant messages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
In the open, dusty area between wrecked car mountains, Rutilio executed an off-kilter pirouette in time to his own breathy beatboxing.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
"I had the time of my life there. It's not a stage-stage school, but of course there's kids doing pirouettes and going 'Aaaaaahhhhh!' in the hallways," Adele told BBC 4 radio in 2022.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
It was his dance teacher who filmed the young boy in June 2020 as he practised pirouettes barefoot in the rain.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023
Williams built his Heisman resumé on improbable plays — near-sacks that became touchdowns; pirouettes in the pocket that turned into big gains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Shortly after launching on 1 July, the European space observatory Euclid started performing tiny, unexpected pirouettes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
Taylor flitted from spot to spot, turning pirouettes, waving to an unseen crowd.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
The latter came with a star cameo from two of the show's young stars, Emma Myers and Evie Templeton, who pirouetted around Gaga and her dancers in wispy bridal gowns.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
“What is dancing?” he asked jurors as he pranced and pirouetted across the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
Then he anticipated Ayton was behind him elevating for a dunk and pirouetted into position.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
The toads pirouetted and leapt gracefully with the music as they made their way to their team members.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
She did it again on the very next possession, this time coming down from the top of the key, pirouetting into the paint and dropping in the easy two-footer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
He amassed nearly 400 videos showing great apes and other primates engaged in spinning behaviors, including somersaulting, rolling down hills, backflipping and pirouetting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
His incredible skill, balletic balance and pirouetting moves bamboozled Brazil, and his free kick set up Henry for a volley - the only goal of the match.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Afterward, she stood with her mother in the busy Doubletree Hotel hallway, girls posing and pirouetting all around, while her mother talked to the coach.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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