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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

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

Market Walk in Northampton is to become a leisure and entertainment space.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

You are, as they say, stuck with it and have leisure to feel all its peculiar irritations and discomforts.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“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

She took no serious interest except in the happiness, the imponderous riches, the innocent and perfect beauties, the sweet leisures, the glories and the arts of peace.

From The Wrack of the Storm by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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

Wolfe's dreary garrison leisures in Scotland, however, were not idle.

From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith


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