fiesta
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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
After Mexico’s stunning 2-0 win over Ecuador on Tuesday—its first in a World Cup elimination match in 40 years—more than one million people took to the capital’s streets for an all-night fiesta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The fans' energy levels defied the hot and humid conditions with a fiesta from start to finish.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
It alludes to Filipino woven bilao — the big, circular ones with all sorts of fiesta food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Outside in the square the fiesta was going on.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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
Fund-raisers have become folklórico fixtures, with troupes performing at church fiestas, weddings and even casinos to raise money for stock costumes, and parents selling tamales and T-shirts outside packed auditoriums.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2018
As she rolled out the dough, she explained that, for the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula, all feasts of happiness, or fiestas alegria, including births, marriages, and bar mitzvahs, were marked with masapan.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2017
Being a people of close family ties and weekly fiestas they suddenly understood the situation.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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