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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

WASHINGTON—Ever since President Trump returned to office last January, he and the Supreme Court have been locked in an uneasy tango.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

“The tango is music for those who are sad. The tango is music to help you cry. So you can let go of your sadness. Then you can be happy again.”

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

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

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

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

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

Throughout, there are waltzes, smoky tangos, airborne flights in all manner of gasp-inducing brilliance from a splendid ensemble swept into motion by Peter Salem’s lush, agitated music, performed live.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

The memory of what was and the sight of what is clash together in my mind like tangos in two different keys.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

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

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

It was Lord Coombe who told me about the old Duchess' dance—and that you tangoed or swooped—or kicked with my Robin.

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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