leisure
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The Harding's Pits Community Association had campaigned for the past 30 years to keep the area as leisure space.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s superb drama, about an album of photographs from Auschwitz featuring Nazis at leisure, moves to Broadway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
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
He added the government should consider "immediate financial support" to help the leisure industry through the next 12 months and ongoing investment into leisure centre stock.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
All was done with what seemed to be ease and leisure, as if it were the armed man who was powerless.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
“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
Wolfe's dreary garrison leisures in Scotland, however, were not idle.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
He read and rehearsed his reading in memory, but he did not give himself to “deep, abstract meditation” and did not surrender himself to “the fruitful leisures of the spirit.”
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes
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
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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