weekend
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This was one of the finest performances in Welsh rugby history and a world apart from the display in the 28-21 win against Japan last weekend.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
As I write this from home, I’m scrambling to get her on a new flight this weekend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
And it falls ahead of a particularly busy weekend for professional and college sports -- teams and their fans are also stuck.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
New Zealand might regret failing to take advantage of France's victory against South Africa on Friday night but they still leapfrog the Springboks to top the southern section with one weekend of regular matches remaining.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Sleep eluded me that weekend, and by that Sunday night, long after everyone went to bed, I lay on my cot, sluggish and jumpy, with my covers tossed off.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Tracy suggests that maintaining reasonably consistent schedules throughout the entire week, including weekends, may help limit these disruptions and support healthier circadian rhythms.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Someone who wakes up early throughout the week but stays up late and sleeps in on weekends may experience this mismatch.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
In the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area southeast of San Diego, Thanksgiving is one of the busiest weekends of the year, with the Calexico Chronicle estimating crowds at 150,000 to 200,000, mostly sleeping in RVs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
The four-person team travels to Chicago from their homes around the country to spend weekends in a test kitchen outfitted with an industrial chocolate melter, a chain saw and a chocolate spray gun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Roberto and I continued going to school and working in the fields after school and on weekends.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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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
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
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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