bicentennial

Examples

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• And during the United States' bicentennial, his composing talents were in great demand.

  Academic text (2011)

• So in 1976, in the bicentennial, I became a United States citizen.

  Tabula Rasa (2018)

• 1976, the year of the Bicentennial of the United States.

  Bottle Shock (2008)

• Both of these pines were part of the Bicentennial gift to the United States in 1976.

  Academic text (2003)

• Scholarly and popular interest has been stimulated by the bicentennial of that major event.

  Academic text (2008)

• Nineteen eighty-nine also marked the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

  Academic text (2006)

• Now I was curating a couple of exhibitions at the Fowler in honor of the bicentennial of Haitian independence on January 1, 2004.

  Academic text (2004)

• Below: Forty years later, at Litchfield town's bicentennial, a woman dressed in colonial garb gave a spinning demonstration.

  Academic text (2002)

• The centrifugal force of America's Bicentennial celebration and the enormous popularity of Alex Haley

  Academic text (1998)

• Late-twentieth-century scholars first rediscovered and began to reevaluate Zubly's life during the 1976 bicentennial and the subsequent renewal of interest in America's early national history.

  Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

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bicentenary

vsbicentennial

• UK

1 7.7

The two hundredth anniversary of an event or the celebration for it

is the same in meaning but appears as an alternative written form

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