contestant
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In casting her, ABC broke with its typical pattern of picking someone who had previously appeared as a contestant on “The Bachelor.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
Paul, the first contestant not to be plucked from the Bachelor Nation, broke that mould in many ways.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
She was the fourth contestant to be eliminated, despite achieving consistently high scores from the judges, and later said during an Instagram Live that she had been “bullied off the show.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
In 2022, she appeared on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and was a contestant on the third series of Celebrity MasterChef.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
We and our pathogens are now locked in an escalating evolutionary contest, with the death of one contestant the price of defeat, and with natural selection playing the role of umpire.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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