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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
Before competing on Big Brother season 24, Hale won Miss Michigan USA and Miss Congeniality in Miss USA 2021, which became a point of contention when her fellow competitors bullied her for coming off as too much of a pageant queen.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 May 2026
The nearly 100-year-old tradition is celebrated with pageants at schools and other festivities.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 1 May 2026
The annual pageant is sponsored by the Oceanside Sea Lions, which is part of Lions International.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2026
Founded in the Bay Area in 1965, the organization hosts drag pageants to raise funds for the LGBTQ+ community, namely to help those contending with HIV/AIDS and homelessness.
—Nicole MacIas Garibay, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 May 2026
The nearly 100-year-old tradition is celebrated with pageants at schools and other festivities.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 1 May 2026
The annual pageant is sponsored by the Oceanside Sea Lions, which is part of Lions International.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2026
Founded in the Bay Area in 1965, the organization hosts drag pageants to raise funds for the LGBTQ+ community, namely to help those contending with HIV/AIDS and homelessness.
—Nicole MacIas Garibay, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pageant
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The pop auteur emerged shortly after, leading a funeral procession–style parade of dancers and an eight-piece brass band performing somber, New Orleans–style jazz renditions of songs from her 2025 album Mayhem.—
Maxwell Adler,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
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There will also be an art show and a fursuit parade.—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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The exhibit highlights the deployment of Google Distributed Cloud running on TPU v6 (Tensor Processing Units) to enable AI at the network edge.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Robinson's defense team, attorneys Kathy Nester, Michael Burt, Richard Novak and Staci Visser, is seeking to block the public from hearing testimony or seeing exhibits that may later be found inadmissible at trial.—
Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026
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While eating at the company cafe after the presentation, Otone and Kensuke meet a child version of a humanoid who’s been brought back to REbirth HQ for maintenance.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
17 May 2026
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In a presentation for young athletes — and for the pro teams and college athletic departments that might invite him to speak — Stripling’s firm uses his story of a baseball prospect that got a $900,000 up-front payment and spent the $500,000 after taxes on a red Lamborghini.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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Despite strong critical support, it was allotted limited showtimes and minimal exhibition backing — a situation its makers came to see as emblematic of wider structural failures confronting Indian indie cinema.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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Important people speaking at exhibition openings will tell you that art is about communication.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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Chipmunks chitter around the bald summit as travelers marvel at the vast panorama unfurling at their feet.—
Shilo Urban,
Travel + Leisure,
19 May 2026
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Book a corner suite for 180-degree panoramas, and request a Chapultepec-facing room for incredible park views.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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The Caballero circus dynasty dates back to the turn of the 20th century in Guadalajara, with Adelaida Caballero was the first in the family to practice the joyous spectacle.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Across two extraordinary weeks, Cannes becomes a nonstop spectacle with daytime photo calls beside the Mediterranean, yacht lunches and interviews in the afternoon, followed by dazzling evening premieres on the legendary red carpet outside the Palais des Festivals.—
Alex Badia,
Footwear News,
18 May 2026
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The midi length hemline on the piece allowed for the shoes to be on full display.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
20 May 2026
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The front, as is Mercedes’s wont, is dominated by screens, including a digital gauge cluster, an infotainment screen angled to the driver, and a dedicated passenger display.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
20 May 2026
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Radio City Music Hall hosted the draft nine times and the Rockettes’ spring spectacular pushed the draft into May in 2014.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
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And 2026 is already off to a bright start, with a buzzy debut novel from Jennette McCurdy, plenty of celebrity memoirs and sci-fi spectaculars.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Pageant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pageant. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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