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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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beauty
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Boxing champion Mike Tyson was, of course, convicted in the 1992 rape of a beauty pageant contestant.
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A beauty pageant , of course.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Parents came to see their children in the annual Christmas pageant .
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The pageant of African history is so rich and various.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And all our actors have taken themselves off and deserted our little pageant , see?
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Does a small-town pageant sound like comedy material?
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From inside, they heard the pageant rolled over on its back.
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He was representing the former Lords of the Manor at the pageant .
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In the nineteenth century this leisurely view of the pageant of time began to speed up.
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The latter group -- of which there are 288 this year -- must apply to participate in the pageant by January.
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Their coming was unheralded by any pomp and pageant whatever....