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holiday

[hol-i-dey] / ˈhɒl ɪˌdeɪ /


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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

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

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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