picnic
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The plan includes 25 acres of publicly accessible open space that supports uses such as parks, plazas, walking and biking trails, recreation centers and picnic areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Asked how exactly the group came together, Godrich and Harrison look at each other across a picnic table and shrug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the next picnic table over, a little girl tipped an oyster back then dropped it on the ground—one more shell for the modern midden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
At the Shuck Station, I joined the evening crowd dining at its outdoor picnic tables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The Imperial Russian Ballet, laid out before her like a picnic!
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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In Greenwich, some people got up from their picnics as the "dust devil" moved across the park, with some even heard screaming.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"Because it's a place for people, for picnics, for livestock to graze," he told AFP, giving only his first name for security reasons.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
“This used to be a park where my dad and I used to come and have picnics and he would play ballgaming here with a lot of families,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Instead, young, broke romantics are opting for picnics in the park or conversations over coffee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
When Sierra was little, Grandpa Lázaro and Mama Carmen used to take her there for picnics.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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Olivia Rodrigo picnicked in the park with one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
I’d seen the Joey P. my entire life; I had visited it on field trips and picnicked in a park that stands in the shadow of its gun mounts.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
Young women and men picnicked side by side on the pavement, chanting: “Woman! Life! Freedom!”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was picnicked.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
He was walking in the woods where he had picnicked with his wife.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
A fisherman packed up his rods next to a family picnicking on the waterfront.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
At first, these trolley parks were simply gardens and picnicking grounds, but in time other attractions and rides like roller coasters and Ferris wheels were added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
In full view of the picnicking pensioners waving karaoke mics are huge commercial ships, some as long as three football fields.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
Sometimes they would group up and play a team of Hispanic men who were also picnicking with their families.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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