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An example use of parade in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… women in this suffrage parade the black …”
A parade is a procession of people, usually in a street, often with a theme.
the word parade occurs in english on average 14.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that parade can be often used in the following areas:
1) people, society, and culture;
2) transport and travel;