summer
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But in the summer of 1988, the central moment of the novel’s plot, there are layers upon layers to that gay community, and its enemies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mbaye joined PSG in the summer of 2018 from FC Versailles 78, progressing through their youth academy and making his senior debut in August 2024 at the age of 16.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The neighborhoods become particularly clogged with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens bearing Middle East plates in the summer, as their drivers escape the Gulf’s scorching heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
For an ice cream truck visiting a summer camp, the TAM is all the kids at the camp multiplied by how much ice cream each kid would buy that summer.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Dad knows I take responsibility for the stuff that matters. I’m still too young for my summer plan to be important.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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English summers are increasingly marked by a once rare ritual: water companies imposing monthslong bans on the use of garden hoses, leaving a nation of gardeners to hand-water their gardens or watch their plants die.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
To get a clearer picture of the subduction zone beneath the northern Oregon coast, Wirth and her colleagues installed 192 temporary nodal seismometers during the summers of 2021 and 2022.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Barcola has become a main target for Liverpool as they look to bolster their attack following the departures of Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah in the past two summers.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
"Future summers will be even hotter," said the group's director Barbara Metz.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“I should’ve become a math teacher. Then I’d have whole summers off, just me and my girls. Wouldn’t that be neat?”
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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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
Driscoll and her husband summered on the New Jersey shore, in Point Pleasant, until he retired in 1930.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
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
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
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
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
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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