pastime
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The women had just become the latest targets of san tay: the increasingly popular Vietnamese pastime of hunting foreigners for English practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Noodling is often portrayed as an extreme redneck pastime, but it traditionally had more to do with survival than sport.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The pastime suffered during World War Two and although the sport resumed, by the 1950s stocks of tuna were on the wane as commercial fishing technology developed.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
This isn’t the first crackdown on the beloved British pastime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Reading was Bucky's least favorite pastime, mainly because he wasn't all that good at it.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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Spend Halloween with one of L.A.’s favorite pastimes: watching a beloved movie outdoors at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Once a desperate 18th-century fight for survival, mudlarking has evolved into one of London’s most coveted viral pastimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
While we have counseled that speculating on earnings reports is gambling, it remains one of the most prevalent pastimes in the stock and options market.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Her husband, an Aragonese merchant by whom she had two children, spent half the value of his store on medicines and pastimes in an attempt to alleviate her terror.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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