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[tang-goh] / ˈtæŋ goʊ /


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Exercise options included familiar activities such as salsa and tango, along with outdoor group workouts in public parks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Enter Mr. Hegseth, who takes tango lessons whenever Mr. Trump says dance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

His other passions included football, the tango and the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, a city he professed to love "more than any place else".

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

It takes two to tango, but it was only she who paid the band.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

The habanera’s strict dotted 3 + 1 pattern was handed down to the Spanish zarzuela, the Cuban danzon, the Brazilian maxixe and the Argentinian and Uruguayan tango.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Kardashian’s most recent real-life legal tangos includes filing a lawsuit with her mother, Kris Jenner, against ex-boyfriend Ray J for defamation and false-light publicity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

“I remember him raking the earth, watering the plants and singing — everything from tangos to boleros,” she said, speaking in Spanish.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

He took a warm, supportive but critical approach as he watched celebrities taking on tangos and waltzes, adding a down-to-earth touch to the otherwise frequently flamboyant panel of judges.

From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023

Casualty star Charles Venn isn't planning to swap acting with Argentine tangos - instead, he's going to do both.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2018

Worse, she’s taken up ice dancing; she goes to classes at the local indoor rink, and tangos and waltzes in time to tinny music, holding hands with other women.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

And perhaps even more than in her sticky-sweet pas de deux with Oh, there’s something sorrowful yet hopeful about her unpredictable tangoes with Kim Bodnia, who plays her original handler, Konstantin.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2019

At this time he danced the danzon at least as well as Edward of Wales tangoes today, was in fact, a noted cavalier.

From Time Magazine Archive

In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

From Time Magazine Archive

So were dance halls, until Santiago authorities reflected that slow, intimate Chilean tangoes would be just right for spreading typhus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sue foxes like she was born in a fox hole under a hollow log, but she tangoes like the original Emperor Tang himself, so go ahead and suit yourself.

From The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess

In “One From the Heart,” Coppola gave her an early lead role, and Garr — a former professional dancer — tangoed down a Las Vegas street with Frederic Forrest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

Meanwhile, Greens pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm was all but matching Smoltz in excellence, though with pitches that tangoed more than darted.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2020

"All I wanted was a dance party," bassist Este Haim told the BBC afterwards, "and then Glastonbury danced with me. We tangoed."

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2017

I tangoed, two-stepped and did the cha-cha as I dealt with embarrassing diarrhea, frequent bowel incontinence and the necessity of knowing the location of a bathroom wherever I went.

From US News ● Mar. 28, 2016

"Sadie Hartmann was sure sore when I tangoed off with him," she would observe reminiscently....

From The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

However, towards the end of the video, the man is dramatically revealed to be John Travolta, who finishes the clip by tangoing with two women.

From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2019

If my agent sold my next novel for seven figures, I'd still have burn marks on my arms from tangoing with sheet pans.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2018

Twitter and other social media sites were abuzz with photo-shopped images of Obama tangoing superimposed over scenes of carnage.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2016

In 2000, Rickman appeared as Sharleen Spiteri’s love interest in the music video for Texas’s 2000 hit ‘In Demand’, which involves them tangoing at a petrol station.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2016

I coughed again, and backpedaled, the Eagle and I tangoing our way toward his living room.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green




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