junior miss

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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. Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2021
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Noun
  • Bed-rotting while watching Grey’s Anatomy, routinely taking breaks between hospital shootings and plane crashes, is a much different experience from devouring eight episodes of a teenybopper show in one sitting.
    Catherine Mhloyi, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Related Video Emma Roberts’s Tote and Purse are Filled With All Her Summer Essentials–Plus a Sweet Treat Beyond their teenybopper appeal, charm bracelets have a storied history in luxury fashion.
    Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Based on a novel by Joan Lindsey, the film is about a group of schoolgirls who, on Valentine’s Day in 1900, go to a remote scenic outcropping to spend the day.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Later, after the crackdown was secured, the schoolgirls who were the beating heart of the revolution were systematically poisoned.
    Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Mulligan brought out a comically large, 20-sided die to roll on the floor — and after an anticlimactic miss that the audience voted to be re-rolled — the heroes were triumphant and stunned the dancing dragon.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
  • But 5-6 down, Sabalenka let Keys in with two misses.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • What missy of a grinch could resist his pleading? 22.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Dec. 2022
  • 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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