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tango

[tang-goh] / ˈtæŋ goʊ /


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Duvall was married three times before meeting Luciana Pedraza, a young woman who was dared by her friends to approach him on a Buenos Aires street and invite him to a tango gathering.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

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

From Slate Feb. 4, 2026

Then I heard a tango being whistled from the alley.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

But after weeks of tangos, salsas and foxtrots, it was McCausland and Buswell's night as they topped the public vote.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2024

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

The “Las Polacas” score, he said, includes tunes with Slavic and Jewish folk influences as well as early-style tangos, “plus a little bit of cabaret in the Brecht/Weill vein.”

From Washington Post May 28, 2015

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

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

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

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

Disease, filth, white slavery, prize fights, tangoes, rottenness, and shame.

From Treading the Narrow Way by R. E. Barrett

Gaynor, who famously tangoed with Reiner for her Emmy-winning 1976 special, “Mitzi...Roarin’ in the 20s,” fondly remembered him as “a genius, a good friend, & a true gent.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2020

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

If he’d been wearing a hat, he’d have tipped it as they tangoed on by.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2017

"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

The youngsters who had tangoed best and had shone in cabarets were swept away as grass by scythes.

From Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

There were only a few sailors guarding the cargo, and they quickly decided that tangoing with a pack of angry colonists with hatchets was a bad idea and got out of the way.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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