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legal holiday

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Definition of legal holiday

as in holy day

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Recent Examples of legal holiday Louisiana is the only state where Mardi Gras is a legal holiday. — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026 When a due date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, employers get until the next business day. — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026 Wisconsin state statutes classify Veterans Day as a legal holiday. — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025 Ten states recognize Columbus Day as an unpaid public holiday, legal holiday or day of recognition, according to Pew Research Center, and these include Washington, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan and New Hampshire. — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for legal holiday

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While Monday’s Yom Kippur holiday was not observed by the stock market, many in the media and entertainment business were attempting to stay offline during the Jewish high holy day.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
Millions of Muslims around the world will celebrate the holy day, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, at the end of May this year.

— Melina Khan, USA Today, 26 May 2026

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The hotel is also working with union The Hotel & Gaming Trades Council to place the Plaza’s 378 staffers into new jobs for the interim of the restoration.

— Timothy Latterner, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
Its retrospective past tense of course could not have encompassed these very latest aesthetic and cultural features of late America, and in that interim the very past this timely book studies has already become a more foreign country.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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Just a little advance planning and plenty of time to focus on sweet potatoes, apple pie, and the rest of your Thanksgiving feast.

— Alton Brown, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
Nominally this was a Christian feast day of Saint Brigid, patron saint of poetry and lambing, who was said to have lived in Ireland in the late fifth century.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

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