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whirling dervish

noun

Islam.
  1. a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.


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The Liverpool teenager, on loan at Middlesbrough, was a whirling dervish, a human blur taking the fight to Croatia.

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When Wilder came in last time he was like a whirling dervish.

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It’s a tough job, but Rebecca, an ebullient, wisecracking, fist-bumping whirling dervish, is more than up to the task and Sherman plays the offbeat role to the hilt.

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During Ultimate, I felt like I was chasing a whirling dervish around the field.

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And so there he was Friday, a whirling dervish of encouragement as Lake Washington sparkled in the background on a glorious spring day at a facility that had the rookies marveling at its grandeur.

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