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pageant

[paj-uhnt] / ˈpædʒ ənt /


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He said he’d use those same sales skills to try to lure back pageant audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

But in the months since, his pageant dreams have begun to crumble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

She later withdrew from the pageant when these issues came to light.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

“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

The salesladies and Mrs. Walton decide I should wear the green, pink, and blue striped silk blouse with pearl buttons and matching blue silk skirt for the interview portion of the pageant.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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

The Miss Universe contestants, who are the winners of national pageants in their home countries, attended Tuesday's event in their sashes and gowns.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

Taylor’s instincts, honed during countless pageants when the one who claimed to be sweet was the one to put Nair in your shampoo, came crawling up her spine and into her cortex.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray




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