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parade

[puh-rayd] / pəˈreɪd /




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You’d need the equivalent of those parade attendants in overalls who run along behind the horses with shovels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

She argued that granting permission for the first time in 28 years for the parade to go ahead "cries out for explanation".

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Police chief Jon Boutcher has ruled out forcing the parade through a hostile crowd, warning of potentially catastrophic consequences.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Thousands of rugby league fans turned out to watch an open-top bus parade, after Wakefield Trinity were crowned Super League champions.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

So the pet parade turned into a stampede of dogs and cats and turtles and hamsters and guinea pigs.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

For Edman, that’s two Octobers and two parades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Orange Order, the most prominent of the loyal orders associated with Protestants in Northern Ireland, holds thousands of parades every year and the vast majority pass off without incident.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

"I'd led 250 cadets on parades and then, for all of that to come crashing down when I didn't have a back-up plan, it was horrible."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Since the 1913 procession, they had tried lobbying, meeting with President Wilson, and holding additional parades, but nothing seemed to generate political support for women’s suffrage.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

We paraded around the room a couple of times in lockstep, like a chain gang, with Frank first, Ernestine next, and the children following by ages.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The Portadown District has maintained a presence at Drumcree Church after talks to end the parading dispute ended without agreement on Thursday.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 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

It must have made an impression on a teenage boy parading and drilling in a uniform on the outskirts of West Point.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

She is parading and blushing at the same time.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston




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