weekend
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Official details of the agreement are scarce, but the facts reported by the Journal over the weekend aren’t cause for enthusiasm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He said that when he celebrated his son’s 15th birthday the previous weekend, there were “plenty of helium balloons,” but also stick balloons.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
The central bankers gathered in the Tetons this weekend arrived unsure how much the Fed’s new chairman would tell them about how he reads the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Areas of heavy rain and showers are expected to sweep across parts of the UK on each day of the weekend, which is a bank holiday for many.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
I had a date that weekend with a girl—a pretty girl who did not scowl— and I had a new suit and I wanted to get it altered for the date.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died at age 80 this week, used to spend some of her weekends in Solvang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Ashley now says that, because of the scheme's success, he wants to extend it to weekends outside of the school holidays, and expand to other parts of East Sussex.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Trump has referred to the 504-acre property that he purchased in 2002 as his Summer White House, and he frequently decamps there for the weekends when it is too hot in Palm Beach, Fla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s just that when I started coming to Lanternwood more on the weekends, I missed a lot of stuff.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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
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
The project, which one observer wryly called “a locally sourced, high-end Levittown for weekending New Yorkers,” will have 26 modernist barns on about five acres each.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2014
Alongside of Shorty, Robinson Crusoe was a tenement-dweller, and Jonah, weekending in the whale, had a perfectly uproarious time; but Shorty thrives on a solitude that is too vast for imagining.
From Roughing it De Luxe by John T. McCutcheon
