Mother's Day
Americannoun
noun
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the second Sunday in May, observed as a day in honour of mothers
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Also called: Mothering Sunday. the fourth Sunday in Lent, when mothers traditionally receive presents from their children
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But he said that as a large buyer of the gas, the company had wider access to suppliers, adding that Dollar Tree already had sufficient balloon supplies for Mother’s Day and spring student graduations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
Before the politics, before the outrage, she reached for the human story: the boy who couldn’t hug his mother on Mother’s Day, the young woman who wanted to have a baby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Said MLB in the statement: “We have given the same warning numerous times in the past to players for messages such as ‘Dad’, ‘Happy Mother’s Day, I Love Mom’ and names of family members.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
His warnings came as thousands of Indigenous women in traditional layered skirts marched through La Paz on Mother's Day in Bolivia, in support of striking transport workers.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
They will come on Mother’s Day, and the sixth graders will put on a play in honor of our moth- ers and the foreigners.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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