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Speaking on her and McCausland's podcast, Winning Isn't Everything, she said her doctor had advised that because she had been dancing since she was five years old, she shouldn't stop now.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

I asked if he’d known anyone who had been dancing at the studio, if he knew anyone who had been there that night.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

By 1975, when Mr. LuPone auditioned for “A Chorus Line,” he had been dancing since childhood and had been in a few Broadway shows.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022

The victims, two men and a woman, told police investigators they had been dancing in a large gathering of about 50 people at around 2:15 a.m. when an argument erupted.

From Fox News • Jun. 12, 2021

Bod bowed low to his dancing partner, and then, and only then, did he feel exhausted, feel as if he had been dancing for hour after hour.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman