leisure
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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
Previous research has shown that spending leisure time together can benefit couples.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
If the film feels episodic while tracking the detours of the four—some antic, others grave—that’s partly the point: Among other things, the movie is a brief for leisure as a source of pleasure and disclosure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Herold received his pharmacy training from Georgetown College, and he is fond of spending his leisure time with a rifle in his hand, hunting animals.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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“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
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Wolfe's dreary garrison leisures in Scotland, however, were not idle.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
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
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
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