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Yom Kippur
yom ki-poor
noun
the Jewish Day of Atonement; a Jewish holiday
1917Edna FerberFanny HerselfMrs. Brandeis regarded her small daughter with a thoughtful gaze. 'But that isn't the object in fasting, Fanny—just to see if you can. If you're going to think of food all through the Yom Kippur services——'1989Ed McBainVespersAnd on Easter Sunday, as happened on every Sunday, rain or shine, Christmas, Yom Kippur or Ramadan, Nathan Hooper goes up town to Eleventh Street not to sell crack to the young wops gathered on their front stoops and freezing their asses off in their Easter finery, but instead to buy crack from his supplier, young Bobby Corrente... 'Are you making this up?' Carella asked.2001Pat BuchananDeath of the WestFrom the Arab standpoint, war works. The Yom Kippur War of 1973 led to Israel's surrender of Sinai.

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