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holiday

[hol-i-day] / ˈhɒl ɪˌdeɪ /


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Rachel Stone was five and her brother Ian was 10 when their mum and dad took them on a caravan holiday to Wales with the family next door.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Companies are going just-in-time with their hiring for the busy holiday shopping season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

They were thrilled to be going on holiday together.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Sam Sacks argues that this account of one intense holiday gathering delivers, like Dickens, a “moving and cathartic story of forgiveness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mom seats us in Jack’s living room like it’s her annual holiday party and we’re the guests of honor.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Amazon said it plans to hire more than 300,000 employees for the holidays, up from 250,000 in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Their critics counter that they could spend their holidays doing chores at home for free.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

The crowd problems only get worse around the holidays, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

A single mum has said following government advice to stock up on emergency supplies would mean sacrificing her childcare budget for the school holidays.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Anyway, he moved out, got a job at GameStop, and now he only comes home for holidays.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

He had holidayed with Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and made connections with Mark Burnett, the TV producer of the Apprentice, the show that sparked Trump's rise to power.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

The couple, who live in Ludlow, Shropshire, have holidayed at their caravan in Tywyn for many years, with Mrs Falconer having visited the area since she was a child.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

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

However, since the end of the Ashes they have holidayed in beautiful Queenstown, played golf, been surfing and climbed the picturesque mountain that gives Mount Maunganui its name.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 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

After holidaying on narrowboats, Andy Brown said it was "a fairly easy decision" for him and his wife to move into one post-retirement.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

Three people died after the rare rat-borne hantavirus spread through passengers holidaying on the MV Hondius cruise ship, sparking a global health scare.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Many of them were reportedly holidaying at caravan camps.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

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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