pageant
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Bill Pay itself was extremely meta and self-aware, a post-postmodern pageant that would have given David Foster Wallace an aneurysm.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Thom Brodeur, a former GoDaddy marketer, promised to turn competitors of Miss USA into modern “commerce queens” when he bought the 75-year-old pageant last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He thought back to a vow he made early in his pageant career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The start rate for parade and pageant helpers is $26 an hour, while the start rate for stage scheduling assistants is $28.25 an hour, according to the union.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“You know. The shopping, this fancy lunch, accepting me into the pageant even though I fell flat on my behind. I don’t get it. Why me?”
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
Wednesday's news conference was staged at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater, a venue that hosted Frank Sinatra at his crooning peak and Miss Universe pageants during Miami Beach's mid-century boom.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 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
Two weeks later, Taylor saw Ladybird Hope on TV talking about her life in pageants, how it had given her the confidence to go after her dreams.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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