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[fair-ground] / ˈfɛərˌgraʊnd /


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On the night of the quinceañera in Alice, Pulido made a second stop at a birthday party at the Jim Wells County fairground.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

A fairground train carrying children made its way through the crowd, its Christmas soundtrack drowned out by the supportive honks of cars.

From Barron's Dec. 23, 2025

Designers told the BBC the process for getting the plagiarised listings removed has been like the fairground game 'whack-a-mole' with copied products re-appearing within days.

From BBC Oct. 22, 2025

In the stream on Sunday, a man was seen asking Emiru, real name Emily Schunk, for her phone number after the three streamers got off a fairground ride.

From BBC Mar. 4, 2025

The fairground man on the Great Silvestro's Flying Tea-Cups locked the padded bars that'd stop me, Dean, Floyd Chaceley, and Clive Pike from being flung halfway to Orion.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

In August 2024, Novo Nordisk bused its employees to the sprawling Roskilde fairgrounds outside Copenhagen for its annual summer party.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

The fairgrounds were illuminated using incandescent electric lighting at a scale that showed how entire urban districts could be electrified.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

The protesters rallied on Munich's Theresienwiese fairgrounds, denouncing the leadership of Iran's Islamic Republic following the deadly repression of nationwide protests in January.

From Barron's Feb. 14, 2026

He maintained during his trial that his two crossbows were "purely for sport" and that two pistols were the kind "commonly used in fairgrounds".

From BBC Dec. 18, 2025

Out here in the fairgrounds, I could understand why ancient people used to think the world was flat and the sky was a dome that closed in on top of it.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio




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