busy
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Show up on a Wednesday night and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the middle of a busy Saturday.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
"This is a concern. But it is not surprising when you see how busy departments are. People are staying longer and pressure on staffing is increasing."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It's a perfect place to relax and enjoy the fresh air and freedom that we all need in our busy lives.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In Taiwan, temples are everywhere, wedged between shops and apartment blocks, their incense smoke wafting into busy intersections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
“But you two are so grown up now. You have your own friends and interests and busy schedules. I’m not in the same kind of hands-on-at-every-moment parenting stage Brie’s in.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"It's busier than the carpark at my local mall," says Nick, visiting from the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
"At the weekend it gets busier, but otherwise..." one hotel manager said, trailing off.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
“We are busier than we’ve ever been,” he said of the firm, founded in 1962.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,” Mme.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Hundreds of flights were delayed at Florida's busiest airport following the crash.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The crash comes during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year in the US.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The crash temporarily halted operations at one of the nation’s busiest airports.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland's glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 delivered a particularly dramatic example.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Fall was supposed to be the year’s busiest time, but travelers were scarce lately.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
In addition to helping customers with their plant selections, Mejia also rings them up at the register and then busies herself with tidying and organizing the shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
Meanwhile, Nouman busies himself with scouring the ground for twigs and bits of wood to make a fire.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
She and care worker Michelle Rispin laugh and joke with each other, as Michelle busies herself checking Kath has the food and help she needs.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
Jack, meanwhile, busies his hands calling up images on his impressive machine.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023
She busies herself then with dusting off a pair of my shoes that have never taken a step.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
The immediate days after my wife moved out of our home, I busied myself in a “bounce back” way that’s been my signature move since forever.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
That is something Mr. Nguyen experienced personally when he busied himself pursuing publication in highly ranked journals instead of writing about what he truly loved: the philosophy of games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Local people busied themselves with clearing away the rubble and recovering a few possessions.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
On turning 90, she continued to live quietly in Chichester, where she busied herself raising money for the cathedral roof.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
She read a few more pages and then busied herself with studying some of Jamie’s picture books.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
Really though, you are only busying yourself and putting off the inevitable trek back home for a few more minutes.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
Murdoch was also busying himself growing his operations in the US, where he gained a foothold in 1976 with US tabloid the New York Post.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
Perez found that she, like her mother, didn’t know how to stop busying herself to rest or be present with her children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Rather than busying himself with them, he chipped a pretty long thing all the way over all their heads to someone he must have seen coming from yonder out of a corner of an eye.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022
“She’s so tall,” says Gat, busying himself with boxes of tea, jasmine and English Breakfast and so on.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
