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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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This weekend, Off Duty presents a guide to make every day better for you and those around you.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 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

But he is fiercely defending the accuracy of his claims, in interviews over the weekend, including with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

She wouldn’t be back in the office—she wouldn’t see the new plan—until after the weekend.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

But people haven’t stopped going out to eat midday on weekends.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

They did not engage with the media, and said little to members of the public whose journeys and weekends they were disrupting.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

When I was 5, we’d often visit my grandparents on the weekends.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

The Hidden Kitchen in Cambria is open on weekends and its location in nearby Cayucos is open daily.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

“What about working for me on weekends? I can pay you $1.25 an hour.”

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

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




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