leisure
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The Harding's Pits Community Association had campaigned for the past 30 years to keep the area as leisure space.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Inflation-busting price increases are on the way at a large Worcester leisure centre, with its operators blaming energy and staffing costs.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
His purchase helps explain why Harley is bucking a downturn in sales of leisure products: High interest rates, punishing gas prices and broad economic anxiety have dented sales of everything from RVs to boats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Reaching pension age in the country is widely considered a rite of passage into a second phase of life dedicated to travel, hobbies and leisure that, for the luckiest, can stretch well into three decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
How do children experience music when playing or in leisure time activities?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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“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
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The story, a little drama, was, with the tale concerning Nebuchadnezzar, that of Daniel, and other novels quite as strange, evolved long later in the wide leisures of Jerusalem.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
Washington had his slaves, his coat of arms, and the occupations and leisures and pleasures, so far as the frontier would permit, of an English gentleman.
From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley
The long leisures, the introspective habits, the vita contemplativa so conspicuous in the old Catholic discipline, grow very rare.
From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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