holiday
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Factors included people staying indoors due to the temperature outside, holiday travel and gatherings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Performers, including jazz musician Chuck Redd, canceled a variety of holiday shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hong faced particular scrutiny for remarks about police funding and the US Thanksgiving holiday - some of which she later walked back.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average closed 0.8% higher after returning from a holiday on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Then she opened her big bag and took out a stack of holiday cards.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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Two days later, she told POLITICO’s Irie Sentner that it was her “favorite holiday” while admitting, “I’m kind of a curmudgeon when it comes to holidays in general.”
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
The key short-term counter measure he announced was to temporarily lift a ban on truck transports on Sundays and public holidays to help ease cargo bottlenecks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
By the end, and by her own hand, she was reduced to being a joyless hater of holidays and avowed enemy of All Things Fun.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
The closure falls in the middle of the school summer holidays, one of the busiest periods for UK theme parks.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It includes many different kinds of music: lullabies and children's singing games, tunes that everyone enjoys singing together or dancing to, songs for celebrations, ceremonies, and holidays.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Mandelson has met Elon Musk, holidayed with Trump's new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and built a relationship with Mark Burnett, the TV producer behind The Apprentice who is now Trump's special envoy to the UK.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
In a video statement issued from the hospital, he appeared to be in good spirits and said he had holidayed at the Sea of Galilee without properly protecting himself from a heatwave.
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2023
Shannon and Abbie have holidayed together and when Abbie visits Sheffield she stays with Shannon's friends and family.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2022
As Benedict had holidayed in the diocese, and spent at least part of his time at the priest’s former place of work with his successor, the experts said they suspect he knew about the conviction.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
Our entire family, dad, mum, my two brothers and I, had holidayed at their place a year earlier.
From Free from School by Rahul Alvares
Speaking to AFP by phone, a Moscow resident holidaying in Feodosia on Crimea's southeastern coast said earlier this week that "everyone is afraid: locals and visitors alike."
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The 64 year-old is one of six Britons who died after holidaying on the island country since January 2023, all of whose families are now making personal injury claims against Tui.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Many of them were reportedly holidaying at caravan camps.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
His remark, aimed at the region's conservative leader for holidaying during the crisis, drew condemnation from opposition figures, who demanded his dismissal.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
The earliest account we have of a Lethifold was written by the wizard Flavius Belby, who was fortunate enough to survive a Lethifold attack in 1782 while holidaying in Papua New Guinea.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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