thanksgiving
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He recalls saying the Birkat Hagomel, the Jewish prayer for thanksgiving for deliverance from danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
In October 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated Thursday, Nov. 26 of that year.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Tens of thousands of vibrantly dressed Ethiopians descended on downtown Addis Ababa for an annual thanksgiving festival this weekend.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
The music swells further as he reflects on how crushed he was to lose his job over what his lawyers called a “silent or quiet prayer of thanksgiving for player safety, sportsmanship, and spirited competition.”
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
The minister took advantage of already being on the floor and asked in a choky little voice if the church would kneel with him to offer a prayer of thanksgiving.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
They are usually full of colourful thanksgivings led by families and parish groups and this would have been no different.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2022
“There’s compelling evidence that the first English Thanksgiving occurred here, but that was over 1,000 years behind the thanksgivings offered by indigenous people,” said Stephen Adkins, 73, chief of Virginia’s Chickahominy tribe.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Historians have noted that New England’s calendar was one of the most physically draining ever adopted, with colonists working practically every day save for Sabbath, Election Day, public thanksgivings and “days of humiliation.”
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2015
How many grateful thanksgivings did I pour forth for the protection which God had vouchsafed to me, amidst obstacles and dangers which appeared insurmountable.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Tacitus grimly requests his readers to presume that, as often as a banishment or execution was ordered by Nero, so often were thanksgivings offered to the gods.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
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