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Remembrance Day

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noun

  1. (in Canada) November 11, observed as a legal holiday in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II, similar to Veterans Day in the U.S.


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Over the Remembrance Day weekend, however, the contrast returned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Some of the fake Facebook posts about Hannelore and Hank were still online on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

It is because of the Red Army's liberation of Auschwitz that 27 January was later declared International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

There would have been tears of joy and celebration of the symbolic meaning and power of her ascent to the presidency on Dr. King’s Remembrance Day.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

On the darkening streets the poppies blossom, for Remembrance Day.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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