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parade

[puh-rayd] / pəˈreɪd /




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Cadets lined up on the parade ground each morning as an officer read out battlefield updates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Los Javis prefer a bolder, blunter style, which turns the movie into a long parade of too-muchness that, in substance, ends up seeming not enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Milwaukee sent a parade of four relievers to the mound for a second straight game Monday, and for a second straight game they didn’t give up a run, retiring the last 15 Dodgers in order.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin — September is both campaign season and parade season in Wisconsin, as communities across the state celebrate Oktoberfest and the harvest of fall crops like apples and pumpkins.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

As the guest of honor, Roosevelt led a parade of important politicians and diplomats down a wide boulevard dotted with palm trees.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Haass chaired all-party talks in Northern Ireland in 2013 aimed at resolving contentious issues, including parades.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Auto lovers have pushed for years to lessen emissions regulations for collector cars, arguing that these vintage vehicles are only driven short distances to parades and meet-ups where they deserve to be seen and cherished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Alicante has music for lunch, music for dancing, music for parades.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was weeks before identity parades were arranged, and BTP did not approach the CPS for six months.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

May 1—May Day—was a Soviet workers’ holiday, a day of celebrations and parades that Khrushchev always enjoyed.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Mallard ducks and Canada geese have long made the reflecting pool home and paraded their young’uns through it in the spring and summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

On the balcony of his house in Indonesia, Muhammad Yusuf swayed to blaring music and waved a replica of the World Cup trophy as hundreds paraded past, many decked out in Argentina's colours.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Very little criticism came Slot or Liverpool's way when they were paraded as a coup in the summer.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

“I don’t want to be paraded around and be a sideshow,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

This day, the rebels again changed guard full in sight of our fleet, as if to mock us for our inactivity; they paraded with their hats hung on their bayonets.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But that’s a lot of big ifs stuffed into a trenchcoat, parading around social media as an inevitability.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

It was a move that ultimately led to a decades-long parading dispute, sparking some of the most serious public disorder in Northern Ireland's history.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Then, for the first time in Commonwealth Games history, the athletes took centre stage by parading into the arena before the ceremony fully got under way.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The dancers, costumed in their Saturday evening black-and-white vintage best, added to the parading splendor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

“What you thinking, child? Can’t you see you parading ’round with us is telling every scalawag twixt here and Carol-liney, ‘All what stands twixt you and three thousand dollar is this dumb o’ergrowed sharecropper?’

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis


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