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pastime

noun as in leisure activity

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For many, the game that was fondly and famously described as “America’s national pastime” began to simply feel more like America’s past, a slow-moving, creaky relic of a bygone era.

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She’s now 17 and has long since grown out of the pastime.

Even as fretting over the economy remains a pastime on Wall Street, third-quarter corporate profit growth has held up, helped by big banks and big tech.

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While shooting a commercial with his longtime creative partner Tim Heidecker, surrounded by large corporate chains in North Carolina, Wareheim took to researching nearby restaurants: a pastime while on the road for every gig.

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New England’s preferred football pastime became bickering over who was more responsible for the glory days: the stern faced coach or the handsome QB.

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