festivities
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As people up and down the country look forward to celebrating Halloween this evening, one Greater Manchester man takes the festivities further than most.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
An 11-story Catrina -- an elegantly dressed female skeleton -- stands in the Zocalo, the capital's main square, as part of this year's festivities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
And LeBron James found himself smack dab in the swirl of the fierce and funny festivities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
And when the festivities ended, one Aubuchon customer, a woman who had recently lost her own cat, arranged to take home something very special.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The wedding date of course, was unchanged—it wasn’t every day a country had a five hundredth anniversary—but all the festivities were either curtailed entirely or vastly cut down.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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