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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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U.S. natural gas futures settled higher as weekend weather forecasts added heat to the near-term outlook, favoring power-sector demand.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Meghan posted footage on social media of the family at the weekend, showing a family outing in the countryside.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

In the weekend attack, the train was evacuated just before the strike and nobody was wounded.

From Barron's 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

She’ll say we have all weekend to do that.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

There are coffee drinks, mocktails, optional infusions, DJs on the weekends and a back patio where friends gather to play cards, talk and linger.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

The crash comes during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year in the US.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

“On weekends, we went on overnight hikes, slept in tents, fought mock battles, and marched to the beat of the parade-corps drums,” he said.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

Alongside of Shorty, Robinson Crusoe was a tenement-dweller, and Jonah, weekending in the whale, had a perfectly uproarious time; but Shorty thrives on a solitude that is too vast for imagining.

From Roughing it De Luxe by John T. McCutcheon




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