leisure
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“Unlike typical leisure travel, many travelers finalized plans and secured tickets closer to the start of the games.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Sectors that reflect the current health of the economy, including retail and leisure and hospitality, lost jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The automatic pinsetter ushered in a new era: clean, well-lit places in which to spend leisure time.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Somehow, the seasonally adjusted figure for employment in leisure and hospitality actually fell.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Clustered around the screens that face in are chairs and benches and tables, like people gather here to watch at their leisure.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
“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 generous indefiniteness, which treats an hour more or less as of no account, is in keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
Wolfe's dreary garrison leisures in Scotland, however, were not idle.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
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 Roe, Frederick William
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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