in celebration of
idiom
: as a way of celebrating
We're having a dinner in celebration of their anniversary.
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Three Keith Urban classics got a tribute twist at the 2025 ACM Awards in celebration of the country singer-guitarist receiving the ACM Triple Crown Award.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
The Swiss Army lined the outside of the Vatican among clergy and people waving patriotic indicators from around the globe in celebration of the leader of the Catholic Church emerging from the balcony and beginning his papacy.
—Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
The West Coast legend will be joined by Paris Hilton, Terry Crews, Jameela Jamil, Bill Nye, Meredith MacNeill, and returning cast member Ron Pardo.
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie arrives in celebration of the franchise’s 10th anniversary.
—Quincy Green, Billboard, 7 May 2025
These aren’t my words, or even the diaries of a polar explorer, but those of my grandmother Sara Eubanks, who traveled to what is called the white continent in January 2003 in celebration of my grandfather Robert’s 70th birthday.
—Caroline Eubanks, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
The Swiss Army lined the outside of the Vatican among clergy and people waving patriotic indicators from around the globe in celebration of the leader of the Catholic Church emerging from the balcony and beginning his papacy.
—Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
The West Coast legend will be joined by Paris Hilton, Terry Crews, Jameela Jamil, Bill Nye, Meredith MacNeill, and returning cast member Ron Pardo.
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie arrives in celebration of the franchise’s 10th anniversary.
—Quincy Green, Billboard, 7 May 2025
These aren’t my words, or even the diaries of a polar explorer, but those of my grandmother Sara Eubanks, who traveled to what is called the white continent in January 2003 in celebration of my grandfather Robert’s 70th birthday.
—Caroline Eubanks, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
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