leisure
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This has weighed on leisure and hospitality employment in US border communities, found Philip Luck of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
A spokesperson said the LA28 On Location hospitality plan currently includes about 13 premium lounges and nine leisure lounges and hospitality pavilions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The streets around the area were all evacuated and people went to the leisure centre."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
But alas, leisure time proves scarce here for valiant men.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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“In those days, there weren’t video games or these other leisures kids have nowadays,” Gerard said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
To meet the change, Davis sold 100 theaters, wisely followed his customers into new leisures.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At Ferrara, in the wide leisures of her brother’s court, Tasso, Stundenlang, as Gœthe wrote, sat with her.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
I counsel you therefore, my worthy friend, The logical leisures first to attend.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
There lie the tears and the sighs of lovers, the hours lost in pastimes, the leisures of the dull, and the intentions of the lazy.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
Vocabulary lists containing leisure
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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