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as in parade
a staged presentation often with music that consists of a procession of narrated or enacted scenes
we always put on a Christmas pageant every year
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as in exhibit
an elaborate, visually exciting show or event
an annual summertime pageant depicting the town's founding and colorful early history
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Recent Examples of pageant
Girls and young women ages 12 to 23 years old are invited to attend the pageant’s first orientation session from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2 at Templars Hall in Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Road.
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Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Queens like Jaida Essence Hall, Sasha Colby, and even Sam’s mother Trinity have shown an ability to take pageant drag and update it to display more than just skill, but also a point of view.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
Marla, his second, hosted the Miss Universe pageants.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2025
According to Larry Strong, Duggins' former pageant director, Duggins was a two-time former Miss Kansas contestant.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Queens like Jaida Essence Hall, Sasha Colby, and even Sam’s mother Trinity have shown an ability to take pageant drag and update it to display more than just skill, but also a point of view.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
Marla, his second, hosted the Miss Universe pageants.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2025
According to Larry Strong, Duggins' former pageant director, Duggins was a two-time former Miss Kansas contestant.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pageant
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In addition to the Hollywood contingent, several prominent political leaders were in attendance, including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who described growing up going to Pride parades with his mother.—
Rance Collins,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2025
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Arkansas’ regular season wasn’t much like the Johnnies’ good-vibes parade through Queens.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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The exhibit, which was to open this year to coincide with the two anniversaries, highlights U.S. efforts to address the worst legacies of the war, Rieser said.—
David Rising and Aniruddha Ghosal,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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The exhibit will be open to the public from noon to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19.—
Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
19 Mar. 2025
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Telemundo for years has held an event for advertisers on the first night of Upfront Week, a five-day whirlwind of presentations by U.S. TV companies to Madison Avenue.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2025
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This was the basis for a presentation at the Keyfactor Tech Days conference in Miami, where research first published in 2019 was used to demonstrate just how serious these factorization flaws remain.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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The juried art exhibition and sale is open to artists in the suburban Chicago area who specialize in painting, drawing, sculpture, jewelry, photography, pottery, glass, wood and other art forms.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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For two-and-a-half years, curators from Cinémathèque Française and the Design Museum in London pored over a treasure trove of items locked away in Anderson’s storage facility in Kent, England to create the first museum exhibition of his work.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
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Behind them unfurled a panorama of devastation from the Palisades fire a month earlier.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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But over time the regime’s panorama of lies will gradually, then suddenly, fall apart.—
Bret Stephens,
The Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Heavy on spectacle and light on her trademark personal connectivity, Blige’s 100-minute set was hindered by questionable pacing and condensed arrangements that minimized her formidable skills as a vocalist.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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The script is often the same: the crowd swells, accusations fly, fists land, and the spectacle is sometimes even filmed.—
Ismat Ara,
TIME,
15 Mar. 2025
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There’s possibly no better festival to see Bahamian culture on full display in all its wonderful forms then at the season-long Goombay Summer Festival.—
Sandra MacGregor,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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The basket preheats quickly and the simple display is intuitive.—
Louryn Strampe,
WIRED,
22 Mar. 2025
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When millions of people tuned in to Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, they were treated to a New Orleans cultural spectacular during pregame.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Axios,
9 Feb. 2025
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And for something completely different, from Hong Kong comes Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, a martial-arts spectacular that took Cannes by storm at its wild midnight screening.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
7 Dec. 2024
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“Pageant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pageant. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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