summer
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El Niño is not thought to have been a major driver of the record-breaking heatwaves that have dominated this summer.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
While fuel prices typically dip as summer winds down, AAA records stretching back to 2000 show nominal gas prices have never been so high this late in the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Emily, John, and David top off the summer by answering listeners’ questions of all kinds.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
In France more than 20 million people faced temperatures over 35C for at least 21 days -- five times more than in the summer of 2022.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
She must be on their summer select team, which is coached by the varsity coach from the high school.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Root joked on Tuesday his "natural persona" may be suited to bringing a sense of calm to one of English cricket's most chaotic summers.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
To honor their mother’s wishes, three siblings return to the island of their childhood summers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She finds that her summers in Fiji, the show’s filming location, always leave her with a fresh perspective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Hopefully that will stay as it is," Ebel said, adding that hotter summers could mean TUI sees more bookings in the autumn and spring.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Right because I am the girl who spends her summers reading books and working, tutoring at the rec, when a lot of her friends are at the rec, playing their summers away.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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Throughout her life, she summered in Maine near Franklin Roosevelt, yet she was among those drawn to “settlement houses.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Richard Nixon — who was born in Yorba Linda, attended Fullerton High, had his first law office in La Habra and summered in San Clemente during his presidency — might seem like an obvious choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
Driscoll and her husband summered on the New Jersey shore, in Point Pleasant, until he retired in 1930.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is particularly beloved in Castel Gandolfo, where he joined a centuries-long list of pontiffs who summered at the papal villa overlooking Lake Alban in the hills south of Rome.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
During the summer break from school, the Gobles worked as live-in help for a New York family that summered in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
He’s boastfully summering in Italy and reveling in his luxurious wedding on All-In, the podcast that he co-hosts.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023
Nevertheless, Dorsey, who is also the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, began thinking of acquiring Tidal after summering with his friend Carter in the Hamptons in 2020, according to court documents.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
There's a Black elite that has been summering on Martha's Vineyard since the late 1800s.
From Salon ● May 3, 2023
She’d been fourteen, and her family had been summering on the coast of West Ravka, enjoying the seaside and performing in a carnival on the outskirts of Os Kervo.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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