weekend
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They would include half hourly services during weekdays on the Chiltern Main Line between London and Birmingham, as well as more weekend services.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
I’ll make it on a weekend if I’m just chilling and want to watch Netflix all day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
For the Brazilian, the goal this weekend is clear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The couple also drew a distinction between the ceremony itself, which was just family, and the rest of the wedding weekend.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
This past weekend, it rained Saturday, so I didn’t get to plant my trees until Sunday.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
News of the television tribute follows an announcement last month by Parton’s estate that revealed plans for Dollyfest, a two-day celebration in Nashville and London next year across two consecutive weekends to honor her legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
When I was 5, we’d often visit my grandparents on the weekends.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Hamilton acknowledged again that Ferrari had to improve their operations, after three consecutive race weekends where qualifying has not gone to plan.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
There are coffee drinks, mocktails, optional infusions, DJs on the weekends and a back patio where friends gather to play cards, talk and linger.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Dad will wear a shirt without a collar, and even jeans on weekends, but he sends them to the cleaner’s, so there’s a crease down the center of each leg, like Sunday pants.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
The good weather gives us more time to write, because we aren’t raking leaves, shoveling snow, having drinks with our editors, or weekending in the Hamptons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
He is said to have been building a retirement compound in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second city, while weekending in the mountains where he helped changed the course of history.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021
Long a destination for weekending Brits in search of cheap booze, Calais had by now become something of a ghost town, evacuated of the usual tourists, who were fearful of the encampment on its doorstep.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017
And the weekending shopkeepers and miners from La Wallonie, the French-speaking eastern half of the country, headed to Blankenberge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2016
Alongside of Shorty, Robinson Crusoe was a tenement-dweller, and Jonah, weekending in the whale, had a perfectly uproarious time; but Shorty thrives on a solitude that is too vast for imagining.
From Roughing it De Luxe by John T. McCutcheon
