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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

It alludes to Filipino woven bilao — the big, circular ones with all sorts of fiesta food.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

"Come on in to Pamplona. We can play some bridge there, and there's going to be a damned fine fiesta."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

In the band’s early days, the siblings traveled across Mexico playing small-town fiestas, their father doubling as mechanic and their mother cooking whatever they could afford at the market on a charcoal grill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

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

“You should go, muchacho. Señor Fidencio has a club for young men there. They have fiestas, good times.”

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty


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