leisure
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Previous research has shown that spending leisure time together can benefit couples.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
All sectors show that switching jobs results in higher pay, except for leisure and hospitality.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The leisure and hospitality sector added 22,000 jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Several people in the leisure centre are still wearing their pyjamas, according to a BBC reporter there.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Children now grow up spending much of their leisure time hearing music rather than performing or making it.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
“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
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
Among the many that mine eyes have seen, Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed, Or my affection put to th' smallest teen, Or any of my leisures ever charmed.
From A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
You would not hear me, At many leisures I propos'd.
From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
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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