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pastime

[pas-tahym, pahs-] / ˈpæsˌtaɪm, ˈpɑs- /


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The women had just become the latest targets of san tay: the increasingly popular Vietnamese pastime of hunting foreigners for English practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Noodling is often portrayed as an extreme redneck pastime, but it traditionally had more to do with survival than sport.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The pastime suffered during World War Two and although the sport resumed, by the 1950s stocks of tuna were on the wane as commercial fishing technology developed.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

This isn’t the first crackdown on the beloved British pastime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Reading was Bucky's least favorite pastime, mainly because he wasn't all that good at it.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

Spend Halloween with one of L.A.’s favorite pastimes: watching a beloved movie outdoors at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Once a desperate 18th-century fight for survival, mudlarking has evolved into one of London’s most coveted viral pastimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

While we have counseled that speculating on earnings reports is gambling, it remains one of the most prevalent pastimes in the stock and options market.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Her husband, an Aragonese merchant by whom she had two children, spent half the value of his store on medicines and pastimes in an attempt to alleviate her terror.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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