leisure
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Only 14% of leisure and hospitality workers do and they earn a lot less on average than people in those more-exposed professions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Bennett added: "If you see your face on social media or perhaps on one of our screens in our libraries, our leisure centres, you're going to think twice about wanting to fly tip again."
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
The Second was a few years older than him and had been there longer, so she had more privileges, like being able to check out Fragments from the Library and return them at her leisure.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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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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
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
Cursed when, for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight!
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing leisure
The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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