weekend
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It was a brutal weekend for a few of the NFL’s rising-star quarterbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Over the weekend, Trump posted on social media a link to a news article that claimed he was seeking to fix “safety hazards” at the performance center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
In August 2023, on a bank holiday weekend, a problem with a single aircraft's flight plan caused a key system at Swanwick to break down, leading to cancellations and delays that affected 700,000 passengers.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Company executives and the states suing to block the deal negotiated over the weekend to reach a possible settlement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
‘Darling, you remember I’m at the management conference this weekend?’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
These weekends felt harmless at first and, perhaps you paid your way by taking care of dinners, which could almost cost as much as $500 over the course of two days.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
A spokesperson for Reform said the party was supportive of "celebrity detective" Sutton and pointed out half of his shows would take place at weekends.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
But people haven’t stopped going out to eat midday on weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
When I was 5, we’d often visit my grandparents on the weekends.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We’ll come and play with her on weekends till she can come home with us,” Dad promised.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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
At the Filling Station, an open-air burger joint on 9W popular with weekending families and cyclists, I learned maintenance tips from riders with legs so muscled they looked like bundles of firewood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
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
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
