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leisure

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


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"The streets around the area were all evacuated and people went to the leisure centre."

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Occasionally, a leisure driver bunches up the group until they pull over at the next turnout to let the faster drivers pass.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

But leisure and hospitality—also highly immigrant-dependent—shed 40,000 jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

The lack of new labor supply could be contributing to a shortage of labor, at least in some industries such as leisure and hospitality.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

And read Garcia Lorca and Garcia Marquez at my leisure.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

“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

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

At Ferrara, in the wide leisures of her brother’s court, Tasso, Stundenlang, as Gœthe wrote, sat with her.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus




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