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parade

[puh-rayd] / pəˈreɪd /




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Nearby a mass-produced printed cotton textile shows mangoes against a sea of fireworks during the National Day parade of the same year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Los Javis prefer a bolder, blunter style, which turns the movie into a long parade of too-muchness that, in substance, ends up seeming not enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Milwaukee sent a parade of four relievers to the mound for a second straight game Monday, and for a second straight game they didn’t give up a run, retiring the last 15 Dodgers in order.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin — September is both campaign season and parade season in Wisconsin, as communities across the state celebrate Oktoberfest and the harvest of fall crops like apples and pumpkins.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

I did not want to parade around Mississippi wearing one of her deceased, winged friends on my head.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

He added that there are "questions there about the parades commission" and said they will have to "provide a full explanation" on their decision to allow the march.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

For Edman, that’s two Octobers and two parades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Orange Order, the most prominent of the loyal orders associated with Protestants in Northern Ireland, holds thousands of parades every year and the vast majority pass off without incident.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

She said she had taken her mother to Disneyland a while back, and her mother enjoyed watching the parades in person, but also enjoys videos of Disney parades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

They performed in local parades, and they were looking for some baton twirlers to march in front of the band.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

On Sunday, drivers paraded across the main thoroughfares of Semnan, a city east of Tehran, blocking traffic, according to footage verified by Storyful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Dozens of people also paraded through the village on "salengs" -- scooters with sidecars used locally to transport coconuts -- brandishing placards featuring images of healthy, smiling livers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Minutes earlier, the players paraded around Azteca Stadium — traditionally an impenetrable fortress — to applaud El Tri fans with tears in their eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Victims say they feel helpless seeing their prized possessions paraded like trophies online.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

I turned my attention away from the woman heckling me as the soldiers paraded down the aisle with military precision.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Not for the first time parading, policing and power-sharing are colliding and finding the route out of this row isn't yet obvious.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Relations between the parties were already in tough terrain, but this unexpected bump in the road over parading has steered things further off course.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

But that’s a lot of big ifs stuffed into a trenchcoat, parading around social media as an inevitability.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

The dancers, costumed in their Saturday evening black-and-white vintage best, added to the parading splendor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Gillian and Shriya were everywhere, parading from one moment to the next as if they'd started the tour on that first day of school and were still on it together.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely


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