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Recent Examples of tango
The only thing that matters in sport is to be the last competitor standing, especially when there are just two to tango.
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The two will tango throughout the evening before setting above the western horizon around midnight.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
Drake, a proven mastermind in rap beef, has tangoed with Meek Mill, Pusha T and Kanye and said disparaging things.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2024
Oakland baseball almost always tangoed with tension between supporters and ownership—but not with players.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2024
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The two will tango throughout the evening before setting above the western horizon around midnight.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
Drake, a proven mastermind in rap beef, has tangoed with Meek Mill, Pusha T and Kanye and said disparaging things.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2024
Oakland baseball almost always tangoed with tension between supporters and ownership—but not with players.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tango
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At Sunday’s Women’s FA Cup final, which Chelsea won 3-0 against Manchester United to clinch a historic undefeated domestic treble, Williams waltzed through the mixed zone first, the entourage — including her husband — trailing behind the tennis great, cherubs in her wake.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Kansas City has won the division nine straight years and waltzed to the title again in 2024.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
12 May 2025
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Curaçao August is great for: retro-minded music fans ready to boogie.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
26 May 2025
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Popular since at least the early 1970s, poppers were thought to enhance pleasure in the bedroom and while boogieing on disco dance floors to anthems by the likes of Donna Summer and Loleatta Holloway.—
Jacob Bernstein,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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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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Be Courtesy To Other Shoppers To a Southerner, manners are top of mind, so pushing, shoving, and being rude over buying things doesn’t jive with a genteel way of life.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2025
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From electronics to delicate fabrics, natural stone, and more, there are a variety of surfaces and materials that just don’t jive with this household cleaning staple.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2025
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And so all those things were bopping around my head.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
5 May 2025
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At 8 years old, Wellman was bopping around the backside at Del Mar, and at 14, working as a groom.—
Dana O'Neil,
New York Times,
1 May 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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In the back bay especially, vertically jigging these lures around bridge pilings and across channels can be deadly.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2025
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Larry Bowa still remembers the two kids, sons of Philadelphia Phillies catcher Bob Boone, shagging fly balls in the outfield at the old Veterans Stadium.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Iglesias said shagged in the outfield the last few days in case he’d be needed.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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The team then trained three seals–Nick, Luca, and Miro–to shuffle into place in front of a large screen and showed them the simulations.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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The next generation's most exciting opportunities won't be found in shuffling digital information but in reimagining the physical world.—
Richard Lebovitz,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Tango.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tango. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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