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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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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

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

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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