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leisure

[lee-zher, lezh-er] / ˈli ʒər, ˈlɛʒ ər /


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How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Occasionally, a leisure driver bunches up the group until they pull over at the next turnout to let the faster drivers pass.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"We've got some incredible public leisure facilities, just not enough of them," he said.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

But leisure and hospitality—also highly immigrant-dependent—shed 40,000 jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

There was an air of leisure about the planter’s life here.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

“In those days, there weren’t video games or these other leisures kids have nowadays,” Gerard said.

From Washington Times Jul. 1, 2016

To meet the change, Davis sold 100 theaters, wisely followed his customers into new leisures.

From Time Magazine Archive

I counsel you therefore, my worthy friend, The logical leisures first to attend.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks

You would not hear me, At many leisures I propos'd.

From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

The long leisures, the introspective habits, the vita contemplativa so conspicuous in the old Catholic discipline, grow very rare.

From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky




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