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
I laid down, whilst I waited his leisure to attend to me, for I felt faint and a little sick.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
“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
Tis a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures, but, contrariwise, should be balked by importunate affairs.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
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
He read and rehearsed his reading in memory, but he did not give himself to “deep, abstract meditation” and did not surrender himself to “the fruitful leisures of the spirit.”
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes
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