weekend
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Last weekend, the DE civic action group in Hungary sent 70 election monitors to Serbia, to work with students' movement representatives, visiting polling stations in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Prat also won three races on the weekend, all on favorites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
City officials expect more than half a million visitors from Mexico and abroad to watch this year's parade, which falls on the same weekend as the city's Formula One Grand Prix race.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
A Times Square advertisement was also planned for this weekend.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
On Picnic weekend, Sandy June’s business picked up as soon as the neon kicked on, and my lunch-bussing demanded more hustle.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
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
Back then, a friend and I often drove around on weekends house-hunting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
With many offices moving to remote work, expatriates in Riyadh who frequently travelled to their home countries on weekends are still weighing their options.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Now that I know Mom isn’t going anywhere, it’s time to convince my father that we need him here, and not only on the weekends.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
The evening of the second day had already come, when Ar-hap arrived home after weekending amongst a tribe of rebellious subjects.
From Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
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