leisure
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Agree with your wife on a “fun-money” budget — a pot of money you can dip tino for leisure activities without regret, rumination or recrimination.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
At the time, he wrote in the station’s community newsletter that he was looking forward to a “new life of leisure and with family and friends.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Market Walk in Northampton is to become a leisure and entertainment space.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Previous research has shown that spending leisure time together can benefit couples.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Herold received his pharmacy training from Georgetown College, and he is fond of spending his leisure time with a rifle in his hand, hunting animals.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
“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
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
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
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