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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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By the weekend though, milder weather will already be spreading in from the Atlantic making the cold snap rather brief for most.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

All weekend, the bombshell news consumed the enclave, where the median household income is $217,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Cash says the officers dressed him in dirty clothes he had worn that weekend, handcuffed him and marched him down to an unmarked police car.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

The pass types available for the November sale include general admission with a shuttle pass for $779 on either weekend and VIP, priced at $1399 for Weekend 1 and $1349 for weekend 2.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

“No, the weekend after. The ninth I think my mother said. Maybe we’ll drive over to your house in the car.”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

In the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area southeast of San Diego, Thanksgiving is one of the busiest weekends of the year, with the Calexico Chronicle estimating crowds at 150,000 to 200,000, mostly sleeping in RVs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

One solution was to spread out scheduling of staff and services such as MRIs to include weekends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

According to Isa, the pair decided to visit on a weekday "because we've seen weekends are a bit crazy".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

As for the old folks, the children’s visits became quite a feature of their weekends, something for them to look forward to.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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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