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[troop] / trup /


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On their way off the tarmac, they were greeted by a troupe of folk dance performers and flanked by two rows of teenagers wearing T-shirts bearing photos of Xi.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

He wanted to give back and later became a teacher himself before creating the Ghetto Kids dance troupe - formed of homeless children and those who could not afford school fees.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

“They were a whole troupe of people who’d be in New York for part of the year, but then they’d go and be in Lakewood, Ohio, or Kansas City or Chicago, just following the theater.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The orderly troupe of farm animals lined along the windowsill and the straitlaced dolls poised in the various rooms of their open-sided mansion waited for the gem of her first sentence.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

In the past, he has performed with ballet troupes and choirs, or floated just above the heads of the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

Until Friday, Amdjarass hosts dance troupes, musicians, traditional storytellers, craftspeople, cooks and nomadic camel drivers from across the vast region.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

The hilltop temples echoed with chants, while dance troupes performed with clanging cymbals and bagpipes.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

Immersive Invitational is a way, hopefully, to expose audiences to various troupes to expand their reach.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

I stayed two days close to the bodies of the giants, and there were no trippers, no chattering troupes with cameras.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

So she did what came naturally to her: She trouped.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2016

We trouped down the stairs into a long, narrow, cavelike space burrowing into the hill, taken up almost entirely by a gleaming wood bar.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015

Outfitted in caps and gowns, the singer Nellie McKay and her musicians trouped onto the stage of Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday evening with mischievous smirks on their faces.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2012

Red flags decked the streets as 800 delegates, tieless and in shirtsleeves, trouped into Le Havre's vast, unfinished city hall.

From Time Magazine Archive

They all trouped after her, Palit and Manto bringing up the rear.

From The Hunters by H. R. van Dongen

Not long now: The teams are out on the pitch, Sheffield United trouping out first, closely followed by Liverpool.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2020

That appeal has sent “Hamilton” trouping across the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2017

Father Jack Cassidy and Mother Shirley Jones were trouping with their nightclub act until two days before Shaun was born.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in her briskly written account of Mediterranean travel, study and U. S. trouping, critics found a key to the pleasures of mime that many of them, had long fumbled for in vain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taking over the role of Da with only about 20 hours of rehearsal, says Keith, was "just a matter of trouping it."

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard




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