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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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But at a weekend rally of a few hundred people, Hilton told stories in his British accent of lifelong Democrats who were ready to vote for him, even as he acknowledged he was behind.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The UK will continue to be battered by strong winds and heavy rain over the weekend as Storm Boelo follows on the heels of Storm Austen.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Last weekend, the film opened to $15 million in domestic ticket sales and more than 3,000 sold-out showings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Atlanta Falcons will wear throwback uniforms this weekend for the first time this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

If his parents weren’t divorced, Thor wouldn’t be spending the weekend with Laurence.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

Corgi, an insurance startup, has asked some candidates to participate in multiday work trials, sometimes on weekends, to test their stamina.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Bass said she formed the nonprofit Community Coalition in 1990 to push back against Gates’ practice of conducting mass arrests on weekends in South L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

We spent many weekends sorting through all the photo albums and loose photos we’d amassed or inherited, tossing the duplicate pictures and trashing my dad’s slides that were impossible to view easily.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

On weekends, DJs performed across its basement, main floor and upstairs spaces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

At first Klenam and I only went along to the farm on weekends, but as we grew older, we started going after school on weekdays too.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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


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