summer
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Across the Northeast and New England camp corridor, summer camps have hired mahjong instructors to lead multiday clinics and are incorporating play into daily schedules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Southern California has endured a hot and unusually muggy summer, with a string of heat waves that has had forecasters and public health authorities warning of an increased risk of heat-related illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Last summer Raducanu won her first matches at the US Open since she became a surprise champion but the past 12 months have been frustrating because of more persistent physical issues.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The biggest hits sand down the rough-hewn edges of Mama’s metaphorical front porch to up their resale value, perhaps never funnier than Luke Bryan’s bullet-point summer vacation on “Fish, Hunt, Golf, Drink.”
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 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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In the 1930s and ’40s, three friends—all artists, one almost a generation older than the others—spent their summers here, sketching and painting the picturesque environs of America’s oldest continuously operating seaport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
It shelves a photograph you paused over, a dish you ate three summers ago, a flavor combination you praised enthusiastically in public and then apparently continued discussing with yourself in private.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
"The summers are getting hotter, which is great for the ice cream sales," he explains.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
From "heatwave simulators" to ecological bootcamps, scientists and conservationists are trying ways to revive and reinforce the famous coral reefs off Japan's Okinawa, decimated by climate-driven bleaching two summers ago.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summers morning, the sensations of a child standing at a window, the curve and dip of a swallows flight over a pool of water.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Throughout her life, she summered in Maine near Franklin Roosevelt, yet she was among those drawn to “settlement houses.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
“This is year three of migration, where the virus seems to be coming back down” via birds who summered in the Arctic and swapped viruses, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024
That’s where she summered as she continued to write new books and churn out editions of her etiquette bible.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Ms. Beary and her friends had been close, having grown up together in south Dublin, and had previously summered in Vancouver, Thailand and Vietnam.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
They are primarily animals of the plains, and in winter when the first snows come those that have summered in the mountains move down to the lower elevations.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
Part of the Quinault Indian Nation, it was traditionally used as summering grounds for salmon fishing, hunting, berry picking and recreation.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Betsy and Andrew, who both grew up summering inshore nearby, shared an appreciation for Maine’s hardscrabble mid-coast working class, the same weatherworn fishermen and farm folk Andrew nearly obsessively depicted.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Apparently, for fun, kids like the ones at Chumley enjoy trapeze arts, yacht sailing, Formula One go-kart racing, summering in the winter, horseback riding, and fashion accessorizing.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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