as in Christmas
the season celebrating Christmas
these days, as far as the stores are concerned, yuletide starts in September
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Presley’s yuletide project reached that spot in 2020, and it’s returned to the higher reaches of the list regularly since then.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
From Paris to Hong Kong, the best places to go for Christmas around the world offer their own delightful twists on the holiday spirit—with plenty of familiar seasonal traditions like Christmas markets, ice skating, and glimmering trees to satisfy every nostalgic yuletide yearning.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
However, the ruling does not appear to have affected her yuletide success.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024
When Polly and Lyman’s very liberal daughter Brooke (Melanie Lora) arrives in Palm Springs from New York, not merely for the holidays but bearing potential dynamite — a revealing family memoir — it’s guaranteed that politics won’t be the only bone of contention at this yuletide gathering.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
From Paris to Hong Kong, the best places to go for Christmas around the world offer their own delightful twists on the holiday spirit—with plenty of familiar seasonal traditions like Christmas markets, ice skating, and glimmering trees to satisfy every nostalgic yuletide yearning.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
However, the ruling does not appear to have affected her yuletide success.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024
When Polly and Lyman’s very liberal daughter Brooke (Melanie Lora) arrives in Palm Springs from New York, not merely for the holidays but bearing potential dynamite — a revealing family memoir — it’s guaranteed that politics won’t be the only bone of contention at this yuletide gathering.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yuletide
Christmas
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It was revealed on the season 7 of Love Is Blind that he was not involved in their lives, but photos later surfaced of them spending Christmas together.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
21 May 2025
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The dog characters Zero, Scraps and Sparky are also prevalent characters in the filmmaker’s stop-motion films Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and the feature-length version of Frankenweenie, respectively.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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“Yuletide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yuletide. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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