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Recent Examples of cotillion There is even a French cotillion cake, made with cocoa sponge, Grand Mariner buttercream, dark chocolate ganache, Bavarian chocolate, and Grand Mariner punch. Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 12 Nov. 2024 Iger, who is set to exit Disney at the end of 2026, has a cotillion with Dana Walden, Alan Bergman and Josh D’Amaro, as well as CFO Hugh Johnston. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 July 2024 The young women of the 2022 Stark County Debutante Cotillion were the first group in decades to take part in the rite of passage ceremony after Black women in Canton began holding cotillions in the 1970s. Isabel Yip, NBC News, 21 June 2024 The children of the Black bourgeoise have likely done etiquette training like cotillion. Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cotillion
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Noun
  • The Next Generation Originally titled The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the fourth film was a wild, meta and campy romp following four teens who are driving along a rural road after prom and hit another motorist.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • After prom, Thomas later sold the gown to pay her mother back and put money toward college.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres put her own spin on rapper Cardi B's look (and dance moves) in 2019.
    Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Lively, who co-starred in the movie with Baldoni, the film’s director, said the harassment included an incident during the filming of a slow dance where no sound was recorded.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Cotillion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cotillion. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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