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summer

[suhm-er] / ˈsʌm ər /


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On the City Council, she passed significant legislation around tenants’ rights and rent stabilization and chaired the council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee starting in 2023, but lost that position in a council shakeup this summer.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Last summer, it paid $112 million for a licensed exchange that they converted into Polymarket US.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Alessio Dionisi, appointed in the summer, became their 27th permanent manager in just under 18 years.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

By late summer, the Clarity Act had sprawled to more than 600 pages.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

She led me away from the house then, to the garden bench set against the back wall—the bench where she and Papi always used to sit on summer evenings when they wanted to be alone.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

"I don't have enough summers to compare it to, but I put down a camera a few weeks ago and saw a Triggerfish, which is native to the Mediterranean," he added.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

"It should absolutely send alarm bells ringing, as these hotter summers lead to increased heat stress, higher energy demand for cooling, and strain on infrastructure and public health systems."

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Southern California’s dry summers typically exist because of its land-to-sea breezes in the morning and sea-to-land breezes in the afternoon, according to meteorologist Kristan Lund of the weather service’s Oxnard office.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

"We found loss-of-function mutations in certain genes that regulate circadian rhythms, suggesting they may have adapted to the extreme light cycles of summers and winters in northern latitudes."

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

“And I can tell you that the winters have gotten colder, and the summers have gotten hotter, and the storms have gotten fiercer.”

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

Robert Pluhowski, whose family has summered next door to Duryea’s since the 1970s, said the problem goes beyond Rowan.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The girls who summered on Nantucket and eschewed carbs?

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 4, 2024

Grubauer said he was the only Kraken player who stuck around home base all offseason, with its top-of-the-line facilities, strength coaches and medical staff who aren’t available to him if he summered at home.

From Seattle Times Oct. 8, 2023

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

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

Here are five other films where summering at a country house leads to significant power imbalances and lifelong consequences.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 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

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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