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parade

[puh-reyd] / pəˈreɪd /




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A highlight: watching Tinkerbell sprinkle pixie dust on his infant twins during an evening parade.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Before that, as “rock porridge” still slid downhill, and the rain still fell, the annual parade had come off as scheduled, if not as planned.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

A runaway horse was chased by police on motorbikes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when it escaped before a parade on 13 September.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Chinese missiles have been seen in at least one Saudi military parade, in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

With a laugh, he says, “Is everyone ready to go to the parade? We’re a modern independent nation now. Haven’t you heard? We must celebrate!”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

"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

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

They are the people supporting Disneyland’s parades, shows and character operations, including some who perform as iconic characters such as Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Cinderella.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

When I got home, I asked Allie if he knew of a powerful man who parades the city in such a way.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

The players were clearly delighted with their bronze medals, collected on a podium in Miami then proudly paraded for the travelling fans.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

France paraded its military arsenal from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs-Élysées to the Place de la Concorde.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 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

“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

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

Viral videos of Knicks fans parading in front of Madison Square Garden started trending during each playoff game.

From MarketWatch May 26, 2026

Won’t it be teeth-grindingly annoying, at best, if more people start parading their green virtues?

From Slate May 15, 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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