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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
choreograph
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She has been asked to choreograph a modern ballet for the National Dance Theatre.
▪ There were some fabulous, beautifully choreographed dance routines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alvin stayed on, and even began to choreograph acts himself.
▪ Belafonte had seen the dances Alvin made for the Horton company and talked to him about choreographing this show.
▪ Burlap-covered bulletin boards were installed for notices, which Alvin would suddenly begin to rearrange whenever he was choreographing.
▪ Everything was in the service of the emotions that he was dancing, or choreographing.
▪ He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone, and he could tour.
▪ Occasionally he slowed to a near halt, provoking Eng to push him to keep choreographing and to perform adequately.
▪ The rest will be part-time, seasonal, or contract workers, responsible for designing and choreographing their own careers and retirements.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
choreograph

1943, American English, back-formation from choreography, or else from French choréographier (1827). Figurative sense from c.1965. Related: choreographed.

Wiktionary
choreograph

vb. 1 To design and record the choreography for a dramatic work such as a ballet 2 To direct the development of a project; to orchestrate

WordNet
choreograph
  1. v. compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music; "Balanchine choreographed many pieces to Stravinsky's music"

  2. plan and oversee the development and details of; "The meeting between the two Presidents had been carefully choreographed"

Usage examples of "choreograph".

By that point in history, all Stardancer dances were officially choreographed by the Starmind as a whole, in concert .

Christopher Bruce came with his Ghost Dances, a beautiful work choreographed to South American music.

The date at some hip place, the slick questions designed to impress but not to reveal, the foreplay choreographed to ensure maximum pleasure for both partners before the final act commenced.

And then they began to move, slowly at first, choreographing their clockwork movements to music from a grindingly slow fairground organ.

For this particular reenactment, the organizers had choreographed hand-to-hand combat among the skirmishers.

Marlowe realized that he was watching what had to be the start of a whole choreographed show.

Suddenly he wondered: When the time came, would Carter Jahns ever remember the conversations he had choreographed, about Percival Lowell and the canals of Mars?

I looked like I was lunching my son, perhaps as a well done for getting his first top-ten disc or to celebrate him choreographing his first nude musical, despite the fact that Blink was ten years older than me.

Many find it fatuous and downright repugnant to claim that the wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

Hal supposes because the whole fight-scene has to be ingeniously choreographed so that both combatants have their respectively scaly and cream-complected backs155 to the audience, for obvious reasons .

Then they took off again, their flight choreographed, it seemed, in a complex, undecipherable pattern.

Troeltsch says he for his own part wouldn't be just sitting and lying there if any of the Little Buddies under his personal charge were out there getting potentially injured, and Hal reflects that he does feel a certain sort of intense anxiety, but can't sort through the almost infinite-seeming implications of what Troeltsch is saying fast enough to determine whether the anxiety is over something about what he's seeing or something in the connection between what Troeltsch is saying and the degree to which he's absorbed in what's going on out inside the fence, which is a degenerative chaos so complex in its disorder that it's hard to tell whether it seems choreographed or simply chaotically disordered.

But it's a ballsy fight-scene up there on the stage having been intricately choreographed by an Oriental guy Himself rented from some commercial studio and put up in the HmH, who ate like a bird and smiled very politely all the time and didn't have even a word to say to anybody, it seemed, except Avril, to whom the Oriental choreographer had cottoned right off balletic and full of compelling little cornerings and near-misses and reversals, and the theater's audience is rapt and clearly entertained to the gills, because they keep spontaneously applauding, as much maybe for the film's play's choreography as anything else which would make it more like spontaneously meta-applauding, Hal supposes because the whole fight-scene has to be ingeniously choreographed so that both combatants have their respectively scaly and cream-complected backs155 to the audience, for obvious reasons .

It's impossible, outside choreographed entertainment, to fight two guys together at once.

They've choreographed everything so Haskell comes out of it looking like a hero.