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They are usually full of colourful thanksgivings led by families and parish groups and this would have been no different.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2022

“There’s compelling evidence that the first English Thanksgiving occurred here, but that was over 1,000 years behind the thanksgivings offered by indigenous people,” said Stephen Adkins, 73, chief of Virginia’s Chickahominy tribe.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

Historians have noted that New England’s calendar was one of the most physically draining ever adopted, with colonists working practically every day save for Sabbath, Election Day, public thanksgivings and “days of humiliation.”

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2015

For the bounties of heaven and their red-clay acres the people of Walthall County, Miss, gave devout thanks last week, eight weeks ahead of more usual thanksgivings.

From Time Magazine Archive

She and her operations were calling forth tremendous admiration, however, and there was plenty of genuine piety in the fervent thanksgivings that were uttered.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.