birthday
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The restaurant occupied a sprawling shopping center alongside an Olive Garden, a Cabela’s and a Costco, making it something of a regional mecca for homecoming dinners, birthday parties and Little League victories.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
“It’s about the principle,” he shouted over the sound of a nearby birthday song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Rethink your birthday plans: As a kid, you get a birthday party.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
At the All-Star break, just after his 32nd birthday, Ohtani had the second-highest on-base-plus-slugging percentage in the National League at .952, to go along with his 22 homers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
As soon as things got a little awkward on my birthday, he shut me out.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
“I was moving to be with my granddaughter in an ordinary way. I wanted the ordinary — not just birthdays and holidays,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
It is a season in which a lot of energy is flowing out: two family weddings back-to-back, seven family birthdays between August and November, the usual work, a cookbook project, a documentary.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
With both of their birthdays at the end of October, Emily says they'd always planned to spend them together, but "now I just come here".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
He was taking whatever DJ gigs he could get—weddings, milestone birthdays and once a daycare center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Consider these new clothes a gift,” she says, “to make up for all the birthdays I’ve missed.”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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