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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of waltz.

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Examples

  • Figure skating gold medalist, Kristi Yamaguchi, and her partner Mark Ballas, once again waltzed their way to the top of the judges’ scoreboard via a near flawless paso doble number.

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  • Before moving off, Webb found that the magnetic needle had "waltzed" back 60 degrees since the one-hundred-mile camp, now pointing 80 degrees east of south.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • Detached skulls have not been this conducive to such delightful wordplay since a man named Steve Gory "waltzed" into a police station on the Caribbean island of Grenada with two heads in a bucket.

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  • Melissa "waltzed" her way into America's hearts after being betrayed by bachelor Jason Mesnick on the most shocking and talked about season finale ever of ABC's

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  • Two years ago the Great Recession waltzed in to the great surprise of homeowners, the Fed and the banks, and everyone discovered that house prices don't always go up.

    Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Post-Steroid Economics Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010

  • She felt certain that amongst his men there were many who had been with him for years, men who showed the kind of loyalty to him that Merlow did: men who would not have baulked at the tasks he had for them when he waltzed into their taverns all those years ago, back when Edgeton was still an innocent idyll.

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  • Two years ago the Great Recession waltzed in to the great surprise of homeowners, the Fed and the banks, and everyone discovered that house prices don't always go up.

    Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Post-Steroid Economics Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010

  • Andrew Cuomo D: Cuomo waltzed into the governor's office in 2010 thanks to his own personal popularity and the slow-motion-car-wreck candidacy of Republican nominee Carl Paladino.

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  • Two years ago the Great Recession waltzed in to the great surprise of homeowners, the Fed and the banks, and everyone discovered that house prices don't always go up.

    Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Post-Steroid Economics Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010

  • Two years ago the Great Recession waltzed in to the great surprise of homeowners, the Fed and the banks, and everyone discovered that house prices don't always go up.

    Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Post-Steroid Economics Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010

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