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celebrate

[sel-uh-brayt] / ˈsΙ›l Ι™ΛŒbreΙͺt /


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Bright red banners nearby celebrate last year’s 70th anniversary of China making Xinjiang an official “autonomous region.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Grant and Marston speak of being influenced by passionate social media creators who celebrate books, wanting to build a community as much as an event space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Barry is also finding time to celebrate on the pitch, even rolling back the years by bringing back the dab and hip-swinging celebrations.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Some unironic astrology: To celebrate Slate’s 30th birthday, Slate writer Heather Schwedel asked several astrologers to interpret the magazine’s birth chart.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026

The night after the Normandy Invasion, restaurants in Moscow were packed with excited people thrilled to have a reason to celebrate.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

This year’s Nobel prize celebrates work that started with a question that may sound esoteric: how do Chlamydomonas swim toward light?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

With fans outside desperately trying to get a glimpse of him, Scotsman Clark celebrates victory in 1967.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Back at Hollywood Forever, she told the audience she likes “Carrie” because it reminds viewers to stand up to bullies and because it celebrates the world’s weirdos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The occasion for their concern is this bull market’s fourth birthday, which it celebrates this week.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Twig had insisted on dressing as an evil witch/candy cane hybrid for Halloween, even though nobody really celebrates Halloween in France, and Twig’s mom said she was being embarrassing.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

For now, Manning’s two documented Colorado properties remain the clearest picture of his current real estate portfolio, reflecting his enduring connection to the city where he concluded his celebrated football career.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Knicks celebrated their first NBA championship in 53 years with a ring ceremony and raising a banner to the rafters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The shark has been celebrated for its unexpected boost to the local economy, with Busan Mayor Chun Jae-soo thanking it for generating publicity he said would otherwise have cost "trillions".

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The outcome was celebrated almost immediately by Prime Minister Mark Carney, who said in a statement that "Albertans made a clear choice".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

I found myself staring at a plate of food I had no desire to eat as the entire mountain population celebrated around us.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

He pointed to bipartisan collaboration as key to the passage of AB 32, and Schwarzenegger recalled environmentalists and business leaders celebrating together after the bill passed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

New York Knicks owner James Dolan stood outside New York’s City Hall this summer celebrating his team’s first championship in 53 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Pope Leo XIV has been pictured celebrating Mass from hospital, in the first images of him released by the Vatican since he underwent lung surgery.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

She realized she wanted to spend more time in the city when celebrating her daughter Maxwell’s 11th birthday, and began “looking at real estate that day.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Leaders envisioned a powerful show of unity, a massive crowd of blacks and whites together parading through the Black Belt, crossing as one over the deadline, celebrating their common bond as laborers.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield


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