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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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For their date this weekend, the pair plan to attend a soccer watch party and continue exploring the city together.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Actually, this weekend we all went to the Magic Castle together, too.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Argentina’s Messi, 39, and Spain’s Lamine Yamal, 19, will see one another in the World Cup final this weekend.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

This weekend, the delegation from Hidden Valley has been mobilized to the New York area—because anything can be ranched.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“Good job today, kiddo. You guys going out to the cabin now that you have the weekend off?”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Because we work a lot and our days often belong to someone else from early in the morning until pretty late at night, weekends are more laid back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Last summer, Winston Jules spent his weekends taking dates to nice New York City restaurants and bars with $20 cocktails.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

With more than 200 teenagers on its books, it's available every weekday and will soon be welcoming people on weekends.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Many of them came when markets were closed on weekends, however, giving investors time to digest their impact.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

The next morning, Mom and I headed to the farmers market, which we did most weekends during the summer.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

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

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 project, which one observer wryly called “a locally sourced, high-end Levittown for weekending New Yorkers,” will have 26 modernist barns on about five acres each.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2014

If I were weekending at Bodfish's, I should have arrived there just half an hour ago.

From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)




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