leisure
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He added: "All I will say to you is what happens next: let's all meet for part two of the Clacton by-election coming soon to a leisure centre near you."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Occasionally, a leisure driver bunches up the group until they pull over at the next turnout to let the faster drivers pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But leisure and hospitality—also highly immigrant-dependent—shed 40,000 jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The lack of new labor supply could be contributing to a shortage of labor, at least in some industries such as leisure and hospitality.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
In traditional societies, music would normally be part of everyday work, worship, and leisure.
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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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
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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