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
Saudi Arabia is aiming to diversify its economy away from its dependence on oil revenues, including via investment in the leisure and entertainment industry.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Occasionally, a leisure driver bunches up the group until they pull over at the next turnout to let the faster drivers pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
“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
Among the many that mine eyes have seen, Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed, Or my affection put to th' smallest teen, Or any of my leisures ever charmed.
From A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
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
She took no serious interest except in the happiness, the imponderous riches, the innocent and perfect beauties, the sweet leisures, the glories and the arts of peace.
From The Wrack of the Storm by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Vocabulary lists containing leisure
The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
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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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