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Recent Examples of legal holidayAdults or minors can be detained for no longer than 72 hours, though that time frame can vary if the examination includes a weekend or legal holiday.—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025 City of Chicago offices, for instance, will be closed, but Delaware doesn’t recognize this as a legal holiday.—Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024 Each state gets to determine its legal holidays, the report states.—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024 And only in 1879 was his birthday formally made into a legal holiday for federal employees in the District of Columbia.—Ben Finley, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for legal holiday
The move garnered pushback from some Jewish community members who said the idea steps on a time of mourning and the Jewish holy days ending in Yom Kippur.
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Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
7 Oct. 2024
Ahmad is an avid tennis player and has often had to contend with matches scheduled on Eid al-Fitr, the holy day that marks the end of Ramadan.
Last season’s taste of England made way for a veritable feast this season
Season 1 of The Buccaneers made its debut into streaming society November 8, 2023 with a speedy Season 2 renewal not even a week after the finale arrived Dec. 13 that year.
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Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2025
People in Ireland started observing a feast day on March 17 in celebration around the ninth or 10th century, according to the History Channel, but the parades to honor it actually started in America.
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