afternoon
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Afternoon tours at Ryan Bonaminio Park in Riverside, which features restored native plants from local floodplains and upland areas that support pollinators, will be held at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Catch of the Week, Catch of the Year, Catch of the Century, or Merely the Catch of the Early Afternoon, Please Calm Down…I’ll leave the formal classification to the headline writers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
Phil, he began with Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” floating through the hall.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
John Dagleish won best actor in a musical for playing the titular role, 10 years after his first Olivier win for The Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025
Most recently he had turned down another outlandish idea, this from an earnest young Pittsburgh engineer who had attended his lecture to the Saturday Afternoon Club.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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