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carnival

[kahr-nuh-vuhl] / ˈkɑr nə vəl /


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There’s an Ojai Fall Festival coming with carnival rides and games Sept. 11-13, followed by the Ojai Film Festival Nov. 5-9.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

"A lot of people tend to lose the whole purpose behind the carnival," she said.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

It is Europe's largest street festival and the second-largest carnival in the world, surpassed only by Rio de Janeiro's Carnival in Brazil.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

In recent years, the soccer fields where the event was once held have been filled each June 4 with a carnival featuring foods from around China.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

A fleet of trucks with monster wheels, followed by other kinds of trucks—food trucks, vans, carnival rides on eighteen-wheelers.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

By the early 1990s, some crews in the U.K. began throwing megaraves more spiritually akin to experiential carnivals than to more lowkey dance-floor-and-DJ setups.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

From there it developed into the post-Lenten carnivals of medieval Europe and the private theatricals of Renaissance courts.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

The Nuyorican musician would introduce Blades as the new singer of his orchestra, whom he had met years prior while visiting Panama during carnivals.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2026

Sheyi Martins-Allen, 36, has been going to carnivals since she was 10 years old and now brings her young family.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2024

Sometime in 1925 Johnny and his guardian pulled into the old mining town of Butte, Montana, where the local bullring racetrack linked up with a network of other tracks, carnivals, and fairs.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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