thanksgiving
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Fr Brian O'Fearraigh said they had gathered with heavy hearts but also with deep thanksgiving for the musician's life.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
She has also appeared in float form at the Macy's thanksgiving parade.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
In October 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated Thursday, Nov. 26 of that year.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
New Englanders threw Andros into jail, sent him back to England and had the pleasure of proclaiming days of thanksgiving for the ascension of William and Mary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
After Buchi was born, he had agreed to a thanksgiving service at Kosi’s church, a crowded hall full of lavishly dressed people, people who were Kosis friends, Kosis kind.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They are usually full of colourful thanksgivings led by families and parish groups and this would have been no different.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2022
“There’s compelling evidence that the first English Thanksgiving occurred here, but that was over 1,000 years behind the thanksgivings offered by indigenous people,” said Stephen Adkins, 73, chief of Virginia’s Chickahominy tribe.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Historians have noted that New England’s calendar was one of the most physically draining ever adopted, with colonists working practically every day save for Sabbath, Election Day, public thanksgivings and “days of humiliation.”
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2015
The ceremonies went on the air with the national anthem, thanksgivings for the late Mr. Carnegie, and warblings by a home-grown soprano, who sang The Last Rose of Summer as an encore.
From Time Magazine Archive
That for the answer to prayer, for deliverance from trial, for the fulfilment of hopes, for the glorious things yet spoken of the city of our God, our most cordial thanksgivings are due to God.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden
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