singing competition

collocation in English

meaningsofsingingandcompetition

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singing
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsɪŋ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈsɪŋ.ɪŋ/
the activity of making musical sounds with the voice, usually a tune ...
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competition
noun
uk
/ˌkɒm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌkɑːm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
a situation in which someone is trying to win something or be more successful than ...
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(Definition ofsingingandcompetitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She decided to become a singer in 1994, when she won asingingcompetitionin junior high school.
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Viewers critical to the program concluded that it was just another popularity contest rather than asingingcompetition.
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As soon as he won thesingingcompetitionin 2003, he temporarily stopped studying, due to his busy schedule.
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He wrote poems for many years and in 1964 he was encouraged by friends to compete in an amateursingingcompetition.
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While there he won first and second prizes at a nationalsingingcompetition.
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The tasks included: fire fighting, asingingcompetition, negotiating a hostage situation, a personal makeover and participating in a number of sales related tests.
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For this, the audience is divided into four groups, taking the parts of owls, herons, turtle-doves and chaffinches engaging in asingingcompetition.
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He started off his showbiz career by winning asingingcompetitionwhile in college.
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Two years later he scored high on a weeklysingingcompetition, winning over seven consecutive weeks and reaching the coveted first prize: a football.
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She started songwriting at the age of 15 and while in college she entered asingingcompetitionand won.
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Awards are given on the basis of an annualsingingcompetitionhosted by the foundation.
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Snchez has said that she is looking forward to future seasons of thesingingcompetitionshow and that this first experience was a promising start.
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At asingingcompetition, however, a judge who ran a modeling agency recommended that she become a plus-size model.
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In primary school he was the only male student to take part in asingingcompetition, representing the school's choir group.
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The school also won first in patrioticsingingcompetitionin the same year.
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The latter form was supplemented by the extempo, which was asingingcompetitionbetween two competitors.
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She was invited to host the show after entering asingingcompetition.
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He has been performing for over a decade, winning his firstsingingcompetitionwhen he was just five years old.
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His singing career began in 1951, after he came first place in asingingcompetition.
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This has always produced controversial results in everysingingcompetition.
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