weekend
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On Saturday, clashes erupted in Paris and other cities after hundreds of thousands of people staged a third weekend of protests against soaring living costs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Antonelli admitted that the high stakes of the weekend were on his mind, to the extent that it was affecting his driving.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Now the Galaxy will spend the rest of the weekend watching the out-of-town scoreboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
A Times Square advertisement was also planned for this weekend.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Madi is spending a single weekend in Wisconsin, and Skye talks about missing her?
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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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
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
The best-reviewed movie of the year runs nearly three hours, has launched a thousand memes and just enjoyed one of the biggest opening weekends of any documentary in film history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The close drive would make it easy to see my family on the weekends, and I promised Kia he could come visit whenever he wanted.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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
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
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