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Recent Examples of tango
From line dancing to tango to swing, Denver’s dance halls offer something for every groove.
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Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2025
Natalia teaches him how to tango.
—Ilya Kaminsky
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Real sharks dance with shark handlers, with legitimate danger
The loose competition features five contestants, all professional shark wranglers, grooving to tunes underwater with whichever swimming predator wants to tango.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 July 2025
The first film saw Pattinson's Dark Knight tangoing with the Riddler (Paul Dano), a serial killer plaguing Gotham City.
—EW.com, 28 June 2025
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Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2025
Natalia teaches him how to tango.
—Ilya Kaminsky
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Real sharks dance with shark handlers, with legitimate danger
The loose competition features five contestants, all professional shark wranglers, grooving to tunes underwater with whichever swimming predator wants to tango.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 July 2025
The first film saw Pattinson's Dark Knight tangoing with the Riddler (Paul Dano), a serial killer plaguing Gotham City.
—EW.com, 28 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tango
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Below, guests in black tie waltzed across a custom checkerboard dance floor beneath a canopy of white ostrich feathers and crystal.—
Lisa A. Beach,
Southern Living,
23 Jan. 2026
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Under the chandelier lights, actors dressed as Joan of Arc, pirates, and mythical beasts waltz over a celestial floor and crack jokes between takes.—
Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
19 Jan. 2026
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Someone cue the disco tunes, because Serena Williams is ready to boogie.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
3 Feb. 2026
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Toronto and Orlando know how to boogie.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Clifton Daniel, for instance, jitterbugged with an expertise that increased one’s respect for The New York Times.—
Gloria Steinem,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2024
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Linders says the audience for trad jazz can generally be put into three categories: There are swing dancers who are eager to jitterbug to some hot sounds.—
Noah Schaffer,
BostonGlobe.com,
21 Aug. 2023
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Barring a full and complete meltdown in those 11 games, the idea that the Leafs should just give up on the season still doesn’t jive for me.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Beyond the occasional knee bobbing and finger tapping, there’s no jiving, shagging, or small talk here.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 Oct. 2025
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No agents of the state will yank you out of a stadium for bopping along to this!—
Alexandra Petri,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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Still bopping to the top, 20 years later!—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
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Notably, as Eric and Carol were chatting to Sara, BBC Studios was re-jigging its APAC division in order to bring Australia and Asia under one roof.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
14 Nov. 2025
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The fang gang present themselves as yearning European folk enthusiasts and later as jigging fiends and sometime metalheads.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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At Baylor, players shag their own balls.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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It’s dressed with a vintage phone, a stack of throwback Playboy magazines, a mirrored top, and an orange ’70s shag rug on the second tier.—
Brittany Anas,
Denver Post,
9 Dec. 2025
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The race for Los Angeles mayor has been in an extraordinary state of flux, with the candidate lineup shuffling and reshuffling in the final days before the filing deadline.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Moore administration has chosen the opposite approach, doubling down on spending while shuffling money around in a game of three-card monte.—
J.B. Jennings,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Tango.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tango. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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