weekend
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Posts also highlight the queues that can form outside shops, especially during the weekend.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The White House confirmed Thursday that two campaign stops planned for Kansas and Iowa this weekend have been canceled.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
More than 1,000 Paris city workers will be mobilised over the weekend to clean up public spaces, the mayor's office said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s a big weekend for #RunTok: The New York City Marathon is on Sunday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Babs had something come up, so she called to see if we could push our tag sale to next weekend.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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He would visit on weekends and after work, sometimes flying his private plane there for a few hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
This format also means every team plays three group games, there are no fallow weekends and the whole tournament can be done in a relatively tight five weeks.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Back then, a friend and I often drove around on weekends house-hunting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The best-reviewed movie of the year runs nearly three hours, has launched a thousand memes and just enjoyed one of the biggest opening weekends of any documentary in film history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Karly’s parents are divorced and she bounces between them at weekends and in the holidays.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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