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summer

[suhm-er] / ˈsʌm ər /


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Some argue that August marks the last weeks of summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

It could be argued Arsenal, who also made defender Piero Hincapie's loan deal permanent this summer, could be able to cope without signing another defender.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Given that the shows happen every week throughout the summer, many annual pass holders attend each one.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

It’s a change from the trading that has dominated the crypto space all summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Every day, all summer, we do the same thing.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

After the most chaotic of summers, England have a much-needed Test win after Pakistan were beaten by an innings and 103 runs at Headingley.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

To honor their mother’s wishes, three siblings return to the island of their childhood summers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

She finds that her summers in Fiji, the show’s filming location, always leave her with a fresh perspective.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 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

I’d sacrificed a social life, free time, and my summers to make myself a well-rounded student who would be accepted into an elite university.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

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

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

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

“At least one new family has built a hedge to avoid people seeing them as they pass by,” said Wade Green, seventy- two, who has summered here for years.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

I've been summering there for 20 years, probably.

From Salon May 3, 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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