weekend
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But as photos of the poor attendance circulated on social media during the weekend, USC chose to release a statement responding to the online derision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
He came out of Memorial Day weekend hitting just .223, sparking concerns throughout Wrigleyville that the future of the franchise had issues that ran deeper than Chicago pizza pans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Beyond the weekend, there is some uncertainty about how long the warmth will hold on.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Financial freedom for me looks like, if I want to go to London on a weekend trip, or something like that, I can go buy a ticket.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
I couldn’t always say no—we had to take our turn to do weekend duties—and if I’m honest, the money helped.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died at age 80 this week, used to spend some of her weekends in Solvang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Emma maintained a day job at a Shanghai wine importer, and worked at the vineyard on the weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Ashley now says that, because of the scheme's success, he wants to extend it to weekends outside of the school holidays, and expand to other parts of East Sussex.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
I also volunteer most weekends at Furniture Assist, a local charity that helps provide home furnishings and clothing to people who are financially struggling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
Scoob’s sure he looks like she just told him she knows Santa’s real because they kick it at the North Pole together on weekends.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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
At the Filling Station, an open-air burger joint on 9W popular with weekending families and cyclists, I learned maintenance tips from riders with legs so muscled they looked like bundles of firewood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
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
Alongside of Shorty, Robinson Crusoe was a tenement-dweller, and Jonah, weekending in the whale, had a perfectly uproarious time; but Shorty thrives on a solitude that is too vast for imagining.
From Roughing it De Luxe by John T. McCutcheon
