carnival
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“It’s a Tilt-A-Whirl, you’re getting whipped around,” Farley said during an interview with MarketWatch, referencing a popular carnival ride.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Born on the carnival circuit, the pseudo-sport maintained a here today-gone tomorrow feeling until relatively recently.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Janely Montgomery was enjoying a carnival with her friend near Buffalo, N.Y., when she got hungry and stopped by a halal truck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the movie, a carnival staged a publicity-stunt fake wedding in the whale’s mouth, capped by a whale-shaped wedding cake with tiny bride and groom figurines in the whale’s mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The fact that I can picture my family’s carnival photo without wanting to set things on fire or dissolve into a blubbering puddle?
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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
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
Families popped it over wood stoves; peddlers sold it in paper cones at circuses, carnivals and busy promenades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Authorities are also offering free entry to public swimming pools and museums on the polling day, organising carnivals in various neighbourhoods, and holding a televised variety show and gala.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Her T.V. is color and big and all her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away in carnivals.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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