weekend
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While the weekend is expected to bring a strong high, it is not forecast to remain in place for long.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
This volume’s collage-like spreads serve as a look book for weekend athletes and a reference work for the fashion-curious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Fast friends, we’d hike nearly every weekend together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
After a long and somewhat uncomfortable few days of news, aren’t you looking forward to the weekend?
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ordinarily this was the weekend the Weather Lady flew in from the States for her annual Arctic tour, renting out the whole tundra buggy for herself and her crew.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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There are no people on Lighthouse Island, apart from volunteers and the occasional visitor to the bird observatory at weekends.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He wants laboratory staff to get their weekends back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
They also appear together in “The Odyssey” which has grossed more than $911 million globally in three weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He came to my school shows, and even when I moved to Orange County, we still meticulously planned our weekends together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
It was many evenings and weekends before Shirley realized the treasure her father had mined from the basement.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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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
They don’t seem to like one another very much, these three gay besties weekending together at a tacky Airbnb in Palm Springs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 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 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