picnic
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Surfaced with artificial turf and pebbles, it has a swing set, firepits, picnic tables, a running track, a bar, a 30-foot-wide screen for movies and panoramic views of the Hollywood Hills and city skyline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
One event that the chief justice did attend was the annual Hupper Island Independence Day picnic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The plan includes 25 acres of publicly accessible open space that supports uses such as parks, plazas, walking and biking trails, recreation centers and picnic areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Instead tourists at sunlit picnic tables were photographing themselves.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He glances at a picnic table near the cafeteria.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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That same year, Rosales moved back to L.A. and began organizing lowrider picnics at Legg Lake in Whittier Narrows Recreation Area in South El Monte.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
To combat the isolation and boredom, troops sometimes do fun activities aboard the ship, like hold singing competitions and picnics on the top deck.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Because it's a place for people, for picnics, for livestock to graze," he told AFP, giving only his first name for security reasons.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
And while we tend to think of picnics as outdoor lunches — which means sandwiches, grain salads and the occasional tub of pasta salad — biscuits suggest a different possibility.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Mama took the three children to the market with her, on picnics in the nearby forest, and on outings in the mountains surrounding Gdynia.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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Olivia Rodrigo picnicked in the park with one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
I’d seen the Joey P. my entire life; I had visited it on field trips and picnicked in a park that stands in the shadow of its gun mounts.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
Young women and men picnicked side by side on the pavement, chanting: “Woman! Life! Freedom!”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Before the Taliban seized power, men and women picnicked together in parks on weekends and chatted over cappuccinos in its coffee shops.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
They picnicked in tired solitude, eating as much as they wanted.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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Phil’s opening night was the Bowl opening night, suitable for conspicuous socialite picnicking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
A fisherman packed up his rods next to a family picnicking on the waterfront.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Edwardian author Kenneth Grahame's story of boating, caravanning and picnicking and the hi-jinks of a cross-dressing amphibian is also an ode to the English landscape.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
At first, these trolley parks were simply gardens and picnicking grounds, but in time other attractions and rides like roller coasters and Ferris wheels were added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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