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fiesta

[fee-es-tuh, fyes-tah] / fiˈɛs tə, ˈfjɛs tɑ /
NOUN
day of rest; religious celebration
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“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it,” he tells Jake early in the novel, before the fiesta, before a lot of things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He said he called Leicester manager and fellow countryman Claudio Ranieri, and offered to sing in the "big fiesta".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Ten men suffered injuries Tuesday during the eighth and final bull run of Spain's famed San Fermin festival, bringing to 57 the total number of daredevils injured during this year's fiesta.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

“There is nothing so joyous as a Mexican fiesta, but there is also nothing so sorrowful,” Nobel laureate Octavio Paz infamously wrote in “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” his 1950 treatise on the Mexican condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

When that came around it was like a fiesta.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Shops remained closed, bread was in short supply and Ceuta's annual fiestas have been cancelled as Spain's North African enclave struggled to cope after thousands of migrants poured in from neighbouring Morocco.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Amid the military rule, Barraquiel Tan said he still saw art being created through things like community fiestas and carnivals run by trans artists.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

Villages and towns across Spain hold the fiestas but they were prohibited last year as the country brought in tough health restrictions.

From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2021

Oak View residents wonder whether there will be any fiestas navideñas this year, amid state mandates to avoid large gatherings and maintain social distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020

"Does this happen every night at your fiestas?"

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway


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