Christmas Eve

noun

: the day before Christmas : December 24

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Opening up about her engagement ring, which fans first spotted in a Christmas Eve photo in December 2024, Lipa told British Vogue that model Turner had consulted her sister and best friends about the jewelry before popping the question. Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Hundreds of samples of clothing and other items were collected where four people — Zeigler’s wife, in-laws and a customer — were killed on Christmas Eve that year at his family’s Winter Garden furniture store. Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025 The lawsuit stemmed from a Christmas Eve fire in 2018 that caused $40 million in damage. Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025 For Apollo 8 all of those tumblers fell just right and NASA determined that the optimal day for the historic orbit and broadcast home would be Christmas Eve. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Christmas Eve

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“Christmas Eve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Christmas%20Eve. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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