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contestant

[kuhn-tes-tuhnt] / kənˈtɛs tənt /


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Saturday night's episode showed the boys' choir leader - and former X Factor contestant - Lloyd Macey nominated the boys for the audition.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Trouble began after one of the guests, podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia - who is better known as BeerBiceps to his millions of followers - asked a contestant an explicit and widely criticised question.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 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

We and our pathogens are now locked in an escalating evolutionary contest, with the death of one contestant the price of defeat, and with natural selection playing the role of umpire.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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