junior miss

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Recent Examples of junior miss Pageant director Makenzie Kooi said little miss candidates are between 6 and 9, junior miss contestants between 10 and 12, teen between 13 and 15 and those who wish to be Miss Waukegan between 16 and 22. Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior miss
Noun
  • The multimedia exposure drew the adoration of the era’s teenyboppers, who raced to spend their allowance money on T-shirts, lunch boxes and magazines featuring the face of Bubblegum Bobby, as he was known.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Bed-rotting while watching Grey’s Anatomy, routinely taking breaks between hospital shootings and plane crashes, is a much different experience from devouring eight episodes of a teenybopper show in one sitting.
    Catherine Mhloyi, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That definitely includes Iris Manter, who stars as Matilda Wormwood, the English schoolgirl with telekinetic powers from Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Silent Hill f will follow Shimizu Hinako, a schoolgirl from the fictional regional Japanese town of Ebisugaoka, as her town is consumed by the series' signature fog.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Its combination of velocity and carry, along with his low release height and flat approach angle, produce elite rates of chases, as well as overall and in-zone swings and misses.
    Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • His velocity was up a tick to 94.3 mph, topping out at 95.8 mph and generating 13 swings and misses.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • What missy of a grinch could resist his pleading? 22.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Judges will pick the best ones and the winning master and missy will get free ice cream for a year from Ferch's Malt Shoppe & Grille, receive other prizes and will get to ride in two village parades, Ouellette said.
    Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2018

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