contestant
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The newspaper said the woman was not a contestant or professional dancer on the show, but had met the man due to his participation in the competition.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
“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
And Paul’s casting as “The Bachelorette” makes her the first heroine who was not a contestant on a previous season of “The Bachelor.”
From Los Angeles Times • 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
So if the first word is “fork,” a contestant might say, “You use this to put food in your mouth—not a spoon but a...”
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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