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pageant
noun as in spectacle or contest
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Example Sentences
Muskan Sharma stood up to men who tried to bully her over her clothes - and went on to win hearts and a beauty pageant.
For Hulse, a Miss South Dakota turned Republican state senator, it seemed not just a pageant victory but a cultural watershed.
It is open to all pies and all people because it’s not a contest or a pageant, but a communal celebration of stories.
As she prepared for last year's Miss World pageant, she said: "I really put myself in the zone of service. I really channelled it for this big crown."
This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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