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pageants

noun

plural of pageant

as in parades

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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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 pageants Her daughters Charli, 6, and Lacie Lou, 4, have been competing in pageants since a very young age, with Charli making her stage debut at just 8 months old. — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 Immersive museums, covered wagon campgrounds, pageants, and hands-on historical sites breathe life into Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and make her characters come alive. — Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 June 2026 From competitive cheerleading and dance to beauty pageants, my mother put me in it all. — Amanda Le, InStyle, 4 June 2026 For adult pageants, the organization will send Lianet Aguilera to Miss Supranational and Juan Daniel Naranjo to Mister Supranational, both contests held in Poland. — Sarah Moreno may 31, Miami Herald, 31 May 2026 As a teenager, Bajaria helped her immigrant family’s business, washing cars before winning a string of beauty pageants, including Miss India Worldwide in 1991. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 29 May 2026 The festival includes dancing, singing, and beauty pageants. — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026 The world’s first boardwalk opened here in 1870, and by the early 20th century, Atlantic City had become one of America’s great leisure capitals, home to grand seaside hotels, beauty pageants, and supper clubs, frequented by legendary performers like Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, and The Beatles. — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026 Now in its 79th year, the festival features crab races—including the Governor’s Cup—cooking contests, live music, parades, pageants, running events, and boat docking competitions. — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026

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Another term for a certain kind of planetary alignment, planet parades are what happens when planets line up along the ecliptic in a straight line and appear to us on Earth to be marching across the night sky, according to NASA.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 July 2026
This year features events spanning historical reenactments, fairs and parades — and a few reached capacity months ago.

— Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 10 July 2026

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The report argues that the museum has deemphasized America’s founding, noting the absence of major exhibits devoted to the Founding Fathers or key events of the American Revolution as the country marks its 250th anniversary.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Well, The Castle was really the Smithsonian for almost 30 years, that it was built in 1855, and all the research, all the exhibits, all the science was here.

— NBC news, NBC news, 5 July 2026

Definition of exhibits

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Vogue Business assessed the 64 shows and presentations published on Vogue Runway and contacted each brand to verify the findings (brands were given 48 hours to respond).

— Amy Francombe, Vogue, 6 July 2026
Supported by a potent Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU, ample RAM, and a generous 1TB SSD, the OmniBook 7 can handle any massive data sets, lengthy presentations, and more while running several programs at once.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 4 July 2026

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The Loved One reflects our ongoing commitment to independent publishing, original exhibitions, and the belief that books (and ideas within them) are best experienced in conversation with one another, in-person, whenever possible.

— Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Rémi Santolaria Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian, married and each deep into major solo careers, have built a sequence of three exhibitions across the estate that run from July 5, 2026 to January 31, 2027.

— Natalie Stoclet, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of exhibitions

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But what really blew me away was the sheer scale of the panoramas.

— Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
From a point roughly 1 million miles from Earth, the telescope is expected to survey the cosmos, capturing panoramas of hundreds of millions of stars and billions of galaxies.

— Denise Chow, NBC news, 15 June 2026

Definition of panoramas

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Cattelan spoke to the Financial Times about the strange afterlife of the work, which has become both a symbol of the art market’s excesses and a reminder of his talent for turning absurd ideas into global spectacles.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 13 July 2026
Demolitions are public spectacles and considered regular entertainment.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026

Definition of spectacles

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That’s not unusual among followers of Shia Islam, whose tradition is one of outward displays of faith.

— Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
No brand strategist decided when Norwegian supporters should row through a train station, which city streets Dutch fans dressed in orange, or that Japanese fans should answer both victory and defeat with identical displays of respect and care.

— Julia Dhar, Time, 11 July 2026

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