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
As the claws come out, so does a veritable pageant of secrets and lies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
This was going to be the first Miss USA pageant on TV in two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The investigation into Adetshina's status came after she became a finalist in the Miss South Africa pageant.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
He grew up watching pageants on TV with his single mother in Ohio and found the Cinderella stories intriguing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
This was the reason, then, that she had entered the pageants.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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