weekend
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Now I try to slow down all complicated or heated electronic correspondence for at least a day, sometimes a weekend.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Earlier this weekend, Heathrow conceded that meeting the original deadline would be increasingly difficult without further steps to simplify the planning process.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Some stores had empty shelves over the weekend as residents raced to buy essentials, while fresh produce at market stalls was kept dry in polystyrene foam boxes or hanging just above the water level.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Hurricane Nolo is also bringing strong winds and heavy rains to Hawaii this weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
I get going, nailing the pieces Owen cut for me over the weekend, and then see from my downloaded plans that I need a level.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
The arrangement saw Ortega stay in Los Angeles during the workweek before returning to the family home on weekends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
"I couldn't make plans because I knew I'd be suffering in the evening. My weekends would basically be spent recovering," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“On each of these weekends away, she’s probably spending $500.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
News of the television tribute follows an announcement last month by Parton’s estate that revealed plans for Dollyfest, a two-day celebration in Nashville and London next year across two consecutive weekends to honor her legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Even Sherrilyn, the head of museum security and Aru’s long-suffering babysitter on the weekends, didn’t come in on Mondays.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
