summer
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Sitting in matching recliners earlier this summer, she and her mother explained that they once had a quiet life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
There was, however, a bit of good news this summer when Stellantis decided to allocate production of the next-generation Opel Astra and DS4 to Ruesselsheim, securing the plant's operations beyond 2029.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
After heading that summer to San Francisco to intern at a Y-Combinator-backed company called LendUp, she wound up staying in the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The summer count also shows a rise, of 44% between July 2019 and July 2025, from 3,113 to 4,471.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
She smells like a warm summer night and honey-lemon iced tea.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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It could be that the summers of 2024 and 2025 happened to feature new coronavirus strains that spread quickly, like the FLiRT subvariant of 2024 and the Nimbus and Stratus subvariants of 2025, Chin-Hong said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I deleted a whole mess of apps after we went to Glacier National Park a few summers ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Hopefully that will stay as it is," Ebel said, adding that hotter summers could mean TUI sees more bookings in the autumn and spring.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
While temperatures will continue to vary from year to year, scientists warn that summers will keep getting hotter on average as carbon emissions continue to heat up the planet.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
We’d learned our lesson two summers earlier when we got to the market later in the morning and all of the best produce was gone.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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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
Richard Nixon — who was born in Yorba Linda, attended Fullerton High, had his first law office in La Habra and summered in San Clemente during his presidency — might seem like an obvious choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
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
“It wasn’t just my queerness or my race, but now my class, and educational background, and where my family summered, and who were my people.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
During the summer break from school, the Gobles worked as live-in help for a New York family that summered in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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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
Trump typically lives at Mar-a-Lago from October to May before summering in New Jersey.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
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
Drinking Aperol spritzes, summering in any destination where tomatoes are part of the common diet and reading by the beach are all foundational to this aesthetic and lifestyle.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2023
She’d been fourteen, and her family had been summering on the coast of West Ravka, enjoying the seaside and performing in a carnival on the outskirts of Os Kervo.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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