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leisure

[lee-zher, lezh-er] / ˈli ʒər, ˈlɛʒ ər /


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In recent years the airline has scaled back its route network, jettisoning money-losing flights to focus on its core business serving East Coast leisure destinations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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

There they could weep at leisure, unburdening themselves of their own troubles as they wept for someone else’s death.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

“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

You would not hear me, At many leisures I propos'd.

From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

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 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


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