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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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The assumption has made it easier for many to take the industry’s weekend warnings as a positive.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Even before the race weekend began, drivers were predicting that overtaking would be next to impossible at the new Madring, and they were proved right.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Riyadh, meanwhile, shut its East-West pipeline at the weekend following drone attacks by the Houthis.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

Over the weekend, numerous tech CEOs shared warnings of artificial intelligence becoming an existential risk to humanity, which has garnered calls for stricter regulation of the tech industry.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

Twenty minutes later, we’re sitting in Bubbe’s kitchen, going through her checklist of things to take to Rocklands for the weekend.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

They did not engage with the media, and said little to members of the public whose journeys and weekends they were disrupting.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

When I was 5, we’d often visit my grandparents on the weekends.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

On weekends, she’d carry them to the laundromat.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

He shaved his head and spent most weekends skating Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, listening to hardcore punk and Joy Division.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

Roberto and I continued going to school and working in the fields after school and on weekends.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

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

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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