weekend
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She and two friends were watching for the first time from packed grandstands, having stumbled onto the competition during a weekend reunion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The two clubs reached a breakthrough in negotiations on Friday evening, which left the 22-year-old free to complete his medical with the Old Trafford outfit this weekend.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
A piglet that captured Los Angelenos’ hearts and minds after its attempts to elude multiple pursuers in West Hollywood last weekend went viral has been adopted by a foundation headed by Grammy-award-winning songwriter Diane Warren.
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
Trump has referred to the 504-acre property that he purchased in 2002 as his Summer White House, and he frequently decamps there for the weekends when it is too hot in Palm Beach, Fla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Be warned, however, that on weekends, Guerneville is often short on parking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"You could always give yourself the weekends off. You could have the odd baklava. What damage could that really do?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
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
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
