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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.
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Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2021
Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior miss
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The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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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
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The Al-Roj camp, where the 34 Australians have been living, is home to Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who ran away at the age of 15 to join ISIS in 2015 and was subsequently stripped of her British citizenship.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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An only child of negligent parents, Mihich identified with the Roald Dahl character Matilda, a precocious schoolgirl who learns to fend for herself against sometimes cruel adults.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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But even with the tweaking and fine-tuning, some games are just lost on last-second shots or misses, no matter how well the pieces fit.—
Janis Carr,
Oc Register,
23 Feb. 2026
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Unlike other competitors who arrived in Milan with a can’t-miss label, the 21-year-old speedskater from rural Wisconsin delivered.—
Curt Anderson,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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What missy of a grinch could resist his pleading? 22.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Dec. 2022
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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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“Junior miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20miss. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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