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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

Soul-Rebel Marley said performing at this year's carnival was "a blessing", after he played on the Rampage Sound stage on Sunday.

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

It sounded like a circus or a carnival the way he said it.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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

Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said the use of live facial recognition, metal detector and stop-and-search had "prevented some of the serious violence we have seen at previous carnivals".

From BBC Aug. 25, 2025

One rooted in the thrills, energy and pageantry of early 20th-century carnivals, but with a 21st-century twist — the atmosphere of a TikTok reel brought to life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2025

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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