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celebrate

[sel-uh-brayt] / ˈsΙ›l Ι™ΛŒbreΙͺt /


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Chaparral has a lot to play for and it’s an emotional time as players celebrate Rios’ life during an event on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Nebraska has lost its last four games, but on Friday the Cornhuskers had something to celebrate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

How does this album celebrate your anniversary, and why is this a special milestone?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Millions celebrate the annual festival of lights with fireworks in one of the world's most polluted capitals, worsening winter smog fuelled by vehicle emissions, farm fires and industry.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

On June 10, 1943, exactly a year after they’d flown their first combat mission, there was a special ceremony to celebrate the honor of being named the 46th Guards earlier that year.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The film opened days ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights which celebrates Ram's return to Ayodhya after his exile.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Mobo awards music ceremony - which celebrates black music, culture and excellence from the UK and abroad - was launched by King in 1996.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The new show, though rather diminutive in size, celebrates the Statue of Liberty as reverie, as a dream not yet come true, and the effect couldn’t be greater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

This year’s Nobel prize celebrates work that started with a question that may sound esoteric: how do Chlamydomonas swim toward light?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

And today Sauk Centre celebrates itself for having produced him.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

"Secretary-General Guterres is a true global hero," former US vice president Al Gore, himself a celebrated climate campaigner, told AFP in Antalya.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Krinsky was celebrated in High Point, N.C.—until he closed up shop after just 10 months and cut roughly 45 jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Félix Tournachon, who used Nadar as his working name, was one of the 19th century’s notable portraitists; the celebrated cultural figures of Paris came to him to be immortalized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Supporters celebrated the passage on Monday saying in a press release that it “comes as federal research funding cuts have disrupted clinical trials and delayed medical discoveries nationwide.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

Although some people stayed home to listen to the broadcasts, many celebrated, taking part in midnight torchlight parades that snaked throughout other German towns and cities.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Now here they were, celebrating the first Muslim elected to the Senate.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

On Friday, Leo will travel north to Chiclayo, celebrating mass with a community that remembers him as an activist priest who was particularly close to his parishioners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

After scraping past Steve Borthwick's side in the 2023 Rugby World Cup semi-final, the South Africa hooker was scathing of England's back-slapping and celebrating of in-game wins.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

The confusion around Æthelstan speaks to how famously squeamish the English are when it comes to celebrating England, a nation so old it remains perennially confused about its origin story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

It seems like only a year ago that we were celebrating the beginning of 1880!

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman


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