festivities
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While the food bank's doors close on Christmas Day, meals they have provided mean more people can enjoy the festivities.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
On Halloween night, three days before the epochal election, the festivities were huge and jungle-themed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 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
But each fall, he transforms into the Captain — the undead host of festivities at the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor, a haunted attraction held in Long Beach during the Halloween season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
The special festivities held enough distractions, with so many people milling around the train depot, that no one noticed Ned Gillen at the army recruitment station, signing his name on the dotted line.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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