anniversary
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Marking six months since her mother’s disappearance, Savannah Guthrie shared an emotional public appeal, calling the anniversary “an agony beyond words” and urging anyone with information to help investigators.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
They married in 1990, had a daughter, Savannah, two years later and celebrated their 36th anniversary in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
To mark the 40th anniversary of her disappearance, the Lamplugh family has released previously unseen photographs featuring her siblings Lizzie, Tamsin and Richard and her parents Paul and Diana.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
To mark the anniversary, Harmonia Mundi has reissued the beautiful “A Tribute,” originally released in 2011, on two CDs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
On November 7, 1941, less than a month after they’d been recruited and on the official anniversary celebrating the Russian Revolution, Marina Raskova’s 122nd Air Group took the Red Army oath.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Onstage, the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service was thriving as his two bands toured together to mark the 20th anniversaries of Death Cab’s “Transatlanticism” and the Postal Service’s “Give Up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
"Grief comes in waves", Chantelle said, adding there are milestones like her anniversaries or her daughter's birthdays where she "expected to be broken, but I'm not".
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Xi also attended celebrations for major anniversaries of Beijing’s system of granting nominal political autonomy to Tibet and Xinjiang, becoming the first paramount leader to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The spectacular staging builds loyalty, with clients returning later for anniversaries or family stays, she said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Nurse Cramer was a good- hearted, sentimental creature who rejoiced unselfishly at news of -weddings, engagements, births and anniversaries even though she was unacquainted with any of the people involved.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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