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
Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s superb drama, about an album of photographs from Auschwitz featuring Nazis at leisure, moves to Broadway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
He added the government should consider "immediate financial support" to help the leisure industry through the next 12 months and ongoing investment into leisure centre stock.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Harley-Davidson is bucking a downturn in sales of leisure products, heading for its first full-year retail sales increase since 2021, by offering new and relatively inexpensive models along with rebates and favorable financing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
With the leisure I now had I took up writing again.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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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
Wolfe's dreary garrison leisures in Scotland, however, were not idle.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
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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