weekend
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It’s meltdown madness and it’s definitely going to spill over into weekend travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
New research from the Lib Dems this weekend suggests that if nothing is done, the number of Neets would hit 1.26 million by 2031.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Back in New York, Tiara Johnson had been heading to Orlando for a weekend concert, and any hope that she would make it was growing dim.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Enjoy the weekend, and see you back here on Monday!
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 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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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
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
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
“It’s been nonstop since we made the team,” said Forte, who practices ice-carving techniques inside a local freezer warehouse on weekends before work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
We used to watch together on weekends, with the Hangouts bar open in the corner of our screens, commenting on all the contestants,laughing, even though we could only see tiny squares of each other.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
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
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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