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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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This weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for the pace of AI development to slow and be more closely monitored, as the company has done before, though some have questioned the motivations behind this.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Riyadh, meanwhile, shut its East-West pipeline at the weekend following drone attacks by the Houthis.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

This weekend Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a warning that was immediately backed up by rivals Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of SpaceX.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Over the weekend, numerous tech CEOs shared warnings of artificial intelligence becoming an existential risk to humanity, which has garnered calls for stricter regulation of the tech industry.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

I didn’t even notice Celia and I were running uphill last weekend.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

When I was 5, we’d often visit my grandparents on the weekends.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

Hamilton acknowledged again that Ferrari had to improve their operations, after three consecutive race weekends where qualifying has not gone to plan.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

On weekends, she’d carry them to the laundromat.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

The first pair of Emmy ceremonies, formerly called the Creative Arts Emmys, were held over two nights two weekends before the Primetime Emmy Awards and honored many of the behind-the-scenes workers and craftspeople in television.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

As for the old folks, the children’s visits became quite a feature of their weekends, something for them to look forward to.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.

From Time Magazine Archive

The good weather gives us more time to write, because we aren’t raking leaves, shoveling snow, having drinks with our editors, or weekending in the Hamptons.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2022

He is said to have been building a retirement compound in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second city, while weekending in the mountains where he helped changed the course of history.

From Washington Post Apr. 15, 2021

Long a destination for weekending Brits in search of cheap booze, Calais had by now become something of a ghost town, evacuated of the usual tourists, who were fearful of the encampment on its doorstep.

From The Guardian Nov. 21, 2017

And the weekending shopkeepers and miners from La Wallonie, the French-speaking eastern half of the country, headed to Blankenberge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2016

The evening of the second day had already come, when Ar-hap arrived home after weekending amongst a tribe of rebellious subjects.

From Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold




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