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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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Pardilla remembers bar hopping as a routine weekend activity.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Temperatures will fall by 10-15 degrees Celsius by the end of the weekend, bringing them much closer to the seasonal average.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

We have a few fascinating reads to kick off your weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

So, for the rest of the weekend and the whole bus ride to school on Monday, I was getting ready for Claire and retribution.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

There are no people on Lighthouse Island, apart from volunteers and the occasional visitor to the bird observatory at weekends.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

On summer weekends, thousands show up in Guerneville with kayaks, canoes, inner tubes — just about anything that will float, preferably with a cooler attached.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The licence would allow the new location to remain open and sell alcohol until 23:30 BST on weekdays and midnight at weekends.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

He wants laboratory staff to get their weekends back.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Though I guess it would be okay if Dad came to visit on the weekends.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

They don’t seem to like one another very much, these three gay besties weekending together at a tacky Airbnb in Palm Springs.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 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

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

The evening of the second day had already come, when Ar-hap arrived home after weekending amongst a tribe of rebellious subjects.

From Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold




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