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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Joseph Baena won big at the Iron Gladiator bodybuilding competition last weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

So we are potentially looking at two to four errors, which is not a good weekend.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Authorities raided the ex-leader's holiday home in the lakeside town of San Bernardino over the weekend, where they were attempting to open a vault as part of the banking collapse probe.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

In a Substack post this weekend, Canadian journalist Conrad Black noted the American people aren’t antiwar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

The long weekend had gone by so slowly.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

More younger people are setting aside their screens and heading into the hills on weekends, often equipped with multitools and other gizmos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

He would visit on weekends and after work, sometimes flying his private plane there for a few hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The Tsaritsyno museum is an imperial palace and park complex in southern Moscow that is a popular place to visit, especially on weekends.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Neither of their opponents, nor any other clubs they were scheduled to play on other weekends, were willing to shift from Saturday afternoon kick-off times.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

It was the one time of day we all sat together, especially at the weekends.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.

From Time Magazine Archive

The good weather gives us more time to write, because we aren’t raking leaves, shoveling snow, having drinks with our editors, or weekending in the Hamptons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

He is said to have been building a retirement compound in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second city, while weekending in the mountains where he helped changed the course of history.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021

Long a destination for weekending Brits in search of cheap booze, Calais had by now become something of a ghost town, evacuated of the usual tourists, who were fearful of the encampment on its doorstep.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017

And the weekending shopkeepers and miners from La Wallonie, the French-speaking eastern half of the country, headed to Blankenberge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2016

If I were weekending at Bodfish's, I should have arrived there just half an hour ago.

From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse


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