pageant
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“It feels like the benefits and the perks that we have enjoyed for a long time keep vanishing,” said Todd Stubbler, a 61-year-old pageant helper who has worked at Disneyland for close to 35 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
As a former beauty pageant organizer, the president also notoriously comments on women's looks, once causing a diplomatic stir by praising Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Twisha was a former beauty pageant winner and actor, while her husband and mother-in-law were lawyers.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Rebecca “Becky” Hill, now 58, grew up in Walterboro and won the local beauty pageant her senior year in high school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
I didn’t much care for looking at those men in the pageant.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Founded in the Bay Area in 1965, the organization hosts drag pageants to raise funds for the LGBTQ+ community, namely to help those contending with HIV/AIDS and homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The shorts often satirize Christmas traditions such as gift-giving and pageants.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
More than 120 women from across the world have gathered in Thailand, vying to be crowned Miss Universe in a contest considered one of the "big four" of global beauty pageants.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
Similar successes in later years of Priyanka Chopra, Diana Hayden and Lara Dutta have only reinforced the belief that beauty pageants can be a ticket to success, especially for young women in small-town India.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
Curly guessed it was her very first Hollywood role after retiring from beauty pageants.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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