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holiday

[hol-i-day] / ˈhɒl ɪˌdeɪ /


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In early August 2024, he was on holiday at the Atlantica Mare resort in Cyprus, as riots took place in England following the murders of three girls in Southport.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

This holiday season, for example, Amazon.com plans to hire more than 300,000 workers for its U.S. operations to help with the seasonal surge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 workers for its U.S. operations this holiday season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

In several parts of Scotland pupils are still on holiday and in others only teachers are in school for an in service day.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

On Christmas morning near the ruins of Ypres, German troops in their trenches opposite the British began to sing carols and display bits of holiday evergreen.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Also, Amazon to hire 300,000 workers for the holidays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

For the majority of North Koreans, holidays are out of reach.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

French authorities had been hoping that the student protest movement that started in late September was starting to ease, ahead of half-term holidays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Early on, I saw Dad only on movie screens, on holidays or when he worked in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

First Ladies showed up in the news, having tea with the spouses of foreign dignitaries; they sent out official greetings on holidays and wore pretty gowns to state dinners.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

He had holidayed with Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and made connections with Mark Burnett, the TV producer of the Apprentice, the show that sparked Trump's rise to power.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

The couple often holidayed in Pesaro, where Pavarotti had a villa and was an honorary citizen.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

Mandelson has met Elon Musk, holidayed with Trump's new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and built a relationship with Mark Burnett, the TV producer behind The Apprentice who is now Trump's special envoy to the UK.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

In a video statement issued from the hospital, he appeared to be in good spirits and said he had holidayed at the Sea of Galilee without properly protecting himself from a heatwave.

From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2023

Our entire family, dad, mum, my two brothers and I, had holidayed at their place a year earlier.

From Free from School by Rahul Alvares

After holidaying on narrowboats, Andy Brown said it was "a fairly easy decision" for him and his wife to move into one post-retirement.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Three people died after the rare rat-borne hantavirus spread through passengers holidaying on the MV Hondius cruise ship, sparking a global health scare.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Many of them were reportedly holidaying at caravan camps.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

About two-thirds of respondents also said wildfires in the Mediterranean area would not make them think twice about holidaying there.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

The earliest account we have of a Lethifold was written by the wizard Flavius Belby, who was fortunate enough to survive a Lethifold attack in 1782 while holidaying in Papua New Guinea.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling


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