pastime
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Advocates say an offbeat pastime can tempt a glassy-eyed recruiter to reread your application and serve as an icebreaker in interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
"You can find all those fossils just loose, you know, in the shingle there, if you're lucky, and many families do, and I think that's such a wonderful pastime."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“It’s a pastime I’ve followed since I was a child,” Díaz told El Nuevo Día in March.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
Sections packed with hundreds of rowdy, chanting, bare-chested fans have suddenly appeared at ballparks from St. Petersburg to Seattle, injecting a jolt of life into America’s famously hidebound pastime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
They slept the day, drank well into the evening, and then set off for their pastime.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Once a desperate 18th-century fight for survival, mudlarking has evolved into one of London’s most coveted viral pastimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
L.A. is also where she filmed her latest movie, “The Dink,” an Apple TV comedy centered on one of her favorite pastimes: pickleball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
While we have counseled that speculating on earnings reports is gambling, it remains one of the most prevalent pastimes in the stock and options market.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
It was as though each stage of his life required perfect concentration, undistracted by old pastimes.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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