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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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At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.—
Greg Poole,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2026
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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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Two years later, The Mirror, which follows a schoolgirl navigating Tehran alone, took top festival prizes.—
Madison Darbyshire,
Bloomberg,
13 Mar. 2026
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The al-Roj camp also houses 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.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
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The ghosts of Georgia Democratic near-misses still loom large — including Abrams’ back-to-back losses in 2018 and 2022 despite enormous fundraising hauls and near-universal name recognition.—
Greg Bluestein,
AJC.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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Ty Gibbs, 23, moved to the Cup series the next year and had multiple near-misses (runner-up finishes at Darlington in 2024 and Chicago last year) before reaching victory lane in his fourth season.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 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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