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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
Black History Month can easily become a pageant of safely distant heroes.
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Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2026
Do dogs even care about beauty-pageant success?
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Figure skating is like a pageant wrapped in a game show with a little bit of reality show thrown in.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
The finale is, fittingly, D&G’s tribute to Puccini and Verdi and the grand pageant that is Italian opera.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
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Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2026
Do dogs even care about beauty-pageant success?
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Figure skating is like a pageant wrapped in a game show with a little bit of reality show thrown in.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
The finale is, fittingly, D&G’s tribute to Puccini and Verdi and the grand pageant that is Italian opera.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pageant
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The Bears can only hope that Moore’s Packer-killing touchdowns will resonate years down the road as the start of a dynastic run that includes Super Bowls and parades.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Some of China's latest weapon systems, including long-range missiles, were displayed during a military parade in September.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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The documents will visit museums in each city, with the exhibit remaining slightly longer than two weeks at each location.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2026
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Before the exhibit, both the ring and medal had been displayed in a glass case at a cousin’s auto body shop near Honolulu.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Mar. 2026
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No serious partner will invest the funds needed to prepare a presentation to a city.—
Betty Resch,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2026
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The compensation agreements were approved unanimously last month by the council’s economic development committee with no debate and no presentation to the public.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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The center hosts exhibitions, educational opportunities, and workshops, and many artists show and sell their work in local village galleries.—
Molly Allen,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Before opening the show in London, Opie had been in Germany installing another solo exhibition at the Fridericianum museum in Kassel.—
Fiona Sinclair Scott,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Focusing too narrowly on the recent defeats relating to DEI obscures that panorama.—
Kenji Yoshino,
Time,
25 Feb. 2026
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The dolls were like sketches, and among the pieces born from these miniature looks was a flapper dress inspired by Bal Bullier, the Belle Époque Parisian dance hall that, in 1913, Sonia Delaunay famously depicted in a panorama of moving color.—
Robert Sullivan,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2026
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Unfortunately for lunar enthusiasts in Africa and Europe, the spectacle will not be visible there.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
2 Mar. 2026
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There was an undercurrent of confidence across the collections, where designers weren’t chasing spectacle, but instead refining their codes and pushing them forward in thoughtful ways.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
2 Mar. 2026
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This is paired with 8 GB of unified memory, either 256 GB or 512 GB of SSD storage, and a Liquid Retina display.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Mar. 2026
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Additionally, a pair of bronze bison stands on permanent display in Humboldt Park, created for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition by Edward Kemeys (who also sculpted the lions outside the Art Institute).—
Doug George,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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For Valentine’s Day, their biggest day of the year, the shop will lean into the spectacular.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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Nerds’ ad will air during the second quarter of the gridiron spectacular.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Pageant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pageant. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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