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Jillian Vordick is a former graphics intern and part of the summer 2026 newsroom intern class at The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Its programs involve years of investment in a child to get them into college with tutoring, campus tours and summer programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Aymara Lamche-Brennan, who has a 22-year-old daughter, four-year-old son and six-month-old daughter, signed up for a course during the summer when another mother at the school gate mentioned she was attending.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The picturesque Lac des Brenets between France and Switzerland has dried up after a record-breaking hot summer, leaving locals crying out for help to save the lake.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Jonah and I got roped into helping when they didn’t have enough volunteers during the summer before sixth grade.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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"As children, we used to spend all our summers swimming at the beach, having fun by the water, diving, jumping in and sometimes even fishing," the 76-year-old told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Baroness Brown told BBC File on 4 Investigates "not enough action" had been taken in light of predictions the UK is facing longer, drier summers because of global warming.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
FJ Unger, a 65-year-old entrepreneur, moved to Galicia in northwestern Spain in 2022, drawn in part by the relatively cool summers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
She said summers in Aix-en-Provence, where she used to live, had become so hot that her cats were struggling to breathe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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He visited the island in 1958, skipping his Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduation ceremony to join his wife, who summered there growing up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is particularly beloved in Castel Gandolfo, where he joined a centuries-long list of pontiffs who summered at the papal villa overlooking Lake Alban in the hills south of Rome.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
For generations before then, of course, Native Americans knew it by other names and summered at its cooler altitudes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022
The idea for the book dawned in 1994, when the Smiths, a white family who summered on Edisto Beach, asked a friend if he knew someone who could prepare meals for them.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
The partners at the top firms graduated from the same Ivy League schools, attended the same churches, and summered in the same oceanside towns on Long Island.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
He’s boastfully summering in Italy and reveling in his luxurious wedding on All-In, the podcast that he co-hosts.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023
Nevertheless, Dorsey, who is also the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, began thinking of acquiring Tidal after summering with his friend Carter in the Hamptons in 2020, according to court documents.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
Everyone purporting to be lifelong members of Buell look, move and sound like they're summering there.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021
“The fever has assumed a most alarming appearance,” Rush wrote to his wife, Julia, who was summering in Princeton with their youngest children.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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