weekend
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But rumours on student WhatsApp groups led to unrest over the weekend at the sprawling 600-acre university in Punjab that draws students from India and abroad.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Winterich also recommended reducing the collection gradually — one box at a time, one story at a time — rather than trying to empty an attic in one weekend.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The lack of clarity over the weekend incident has sparked different unverified theories, with some media reporting allegations that the men could even be fuel thieves.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
But a lack of progress over the weekend reignited fears of higher-for-longer fuel costs that could lift prices across the economy and spur further interest-rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“There’s a thing on campus for a week in early August, and then a bunch of weekend events during the year—virtual, mostly.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
I remember weekends with friends as a teenager, spending whatever cash we had in the fashion chains and shoe shops.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The arrangement saw Ortega stay in Los Angeles during the workweek before returning to the family home on weekends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
In one session, Sylvia mentioned: “On the weekends, I usually just make a meal out of the bread crusts I cut off my kids’ sandwiches.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
News of the television tribute follows an announcement last month by Parton’s estate that revealed plans for Dollyfest, a two-day celebration in Nashville and London next year across two consecutive weekends to honor her legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Over several weekends each June, the Osage hold their ceremonial dances, I'n-Lon-Schka.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
The evening of the second day had already come, when Ar-hap arrived home after weekending amongst a tribe of rebellious subjects.
From Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
