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Recent Examples of legal holiday
City of Chicago offices, for instance, will be closed, but Delaware doesn’t recognize this as a legal holiday.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
Countryman said Pulaski’s birthday should be honored in a commemorative way, like St. Patrick’s Day, not with a legal holiday.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
Congress has not established any national holidays that are mandatory across all states, leaving each state the autonomy to determine its own legal holidays.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
If the normal due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, issuers have until the next business day (in the case of Form W-2, January 31, 2025 falls on a Friday, so there are no extra days).
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
Countryman said Pulaski’s birthday should be honored in a commemorative way, like St. Patrick’s Day, not with a legal holiday.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
Congress has not established any national holidays that are mandatory across all states, leaving each state the autonomy to determine its own legal holidays.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
If the normal due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, issuers have until the next business day (in the case of Form W-2, January 31, 2025 falls on a Friday, so there are no extra days).
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for legal holiday
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The start of the 2024 Lenten season, Ash Wednesday, actually fell on Valentine's Day Feb. 14, which is considerably early for the Christian religious holy day.—
Joyce Orlando,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Feb. 2025
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Indoor concerts during daylight hours can feel uncanny, maybe more so on a holy day—the doors opened at 2 P.M., and someone, possibly Callahan, had nestled colored plastic eggs amid the rows of folding chairs—but the vibe in the room was convivial, loose.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
Noun
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As for Bauer, he was appointed to be the director of Public Works and city engineer after serving in the role as an interim for months.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
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The closures are in effect for the interim, NPS wrote in the release, and more park water closures are pending if needed.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
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During the holidays, a fisherman might go out to catch crab and prepare a grand feast for everyone – Dungeness being one Bay Area answer to roasted turkey.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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Yet, taxpayers are left out, footing the bill for what resembles a feast.—
Frank Ricci,
Hartford Courant,
10 Aug. 2025
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Each week, Luminate distributes a report on the Top 50 shows and movies on streaming in the U.S. July 25 to 31 was an interesting interval for TV, not only because of The Hunting Wives.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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After starting feminizing therapy, transgender women showed longer QTc intervals, +20 ms on average.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 July 2025
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“Legal holiday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legal%20holiday. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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