pageant
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Trainers clad in ornate uniforms and traditional white fur headgear led golden-bedecked stallions round a stage arena at an annual horse beauty pageant in the ultra-closed Central Asian state of Turkmenistan.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
A model and actor, Twisha was crowned Miss Pune in 2012 after winning a beauty pageant in the western Indian city.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
President Vladimir Putin has used the occasion to project Russia’s strength, but this year’s military pageant will look very different.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
It messed with our glamorous aviation industry; once, it skewed the odds at a beauty pageant because the planes flying contestants in from around Southern California to the Glendale airport couldn’t land in the smog.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
I sit at my desk, thinking about watching the pageant, anger boiling up inside me worse than a pot of collard greens on a Sunday afternoon.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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