observance
Example Sentences
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Across a running time tied to the shifting seasons, pocked by images of breathtaking beauty, Pálmason is after a feeling that only patient observance yields: a lasting reality about the passing of relationships.
From Los Angeles Times
Woodson viewed the observance as a corrective—a temporary intervention designed to ensure black history would be taught throughout the year as part of American history.
The gallery’s said it will close “in solidarity with communities across the country and in observance of the nationwide strike.”
From Los Angeles Times
There’s also something healthy about being around normie Catholics, including so-called bad Catholics who, despite their lack of observance, still hold on to their faith.
Equity and fixed-income markets are closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
From Barron's
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