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hobby

[hob-ee] / ˈhɒb i /


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For older entrepreneurs who aren’t quite ready to retire, buying and growing a business with their children becomes part hobby and part training ground for the next generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

While it’s all well and good to connect with people over a mutual hobby, online discourse provides a much more fertile foundation than small talk.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

It might feel bad seeing other kids being shuttled from hobby to hobby, but that doesn’t mean you’re doing a bad job as a parent because yours must pick one at a time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Bell-ringers say their hobby offers an antidote, bringing people together to learn, practice and socialise face-to-face.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

First of all: writing, but I don't really think of that as a hobby.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The questions covered activities performed at work, around the home, and during hobbies or recreation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

He added that he was "very grateful" for the settlement, which would allow him to regain some quality of life, adding he had already been able to "get back into some of my past hobbies".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

‘They grind and keep pushing. … Many of these first-generation founders are bad at hobbies.’

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

This is just the autumn itinerary for a wild year of letting themselves chase hobbies and passions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The house was fringed with palm trees, magnificent gardens, and concealed but nonetheless imposing outbuildings in which the family indulged its various hobbies.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey


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