contestant
Example Sentences
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“Dean and I started taking the Baby Making Bundle from Perelel so we can get ahead together,” reads a sponsored post from Caelynn Bell, an influencer and a former contestant on ABC’s “The Bachelor.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
She says it was only "a few years ago" when she and fellow contestant Amy Gledhill were performing in a Leeds club "where the green room is essentially a cupboard with beer barrels as seats".
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Fellow Towie personality Chloe Brockett posted "rest in peace Jordan" on Instagram, a message also repeated by ex-Love Island contestant Chloe Crowhurst.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 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
It said that Bobby had been invited to be a contestant on the television show I’ve Got a Secret at four-thirty that afternoon.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.