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Dozens of floats decorated with bright garden-fresh flowers, marching bands and cavalcades of equestrians will proceed along the 5½-mile route through Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2022

By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice and accumulated such cavalcades of incident that I couldn’t fathom where it had left to go — but it found places, and it went there.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

The devolution of SNL cold opens from laser-focused comedic premises like “Chevy Chase falls down” to loosely structured cavalcades of celebrity guest appearances continues apace.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2020

Crisp passing, alley-oop dunks, cavalcades of 3-pointers - what’s not to like?

From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2018

Along the streets moved cavalcades of the dead—the hearse of the noble and the car of the citizen; and the dead bodies of the poor were picked up upon the streets!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various