weekend
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High surf is expected, possibly enough to cause pier damage, especially over the weekend on the Central Coast, the National Weather Service said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Some people were initially glad to hear about the outage - especially as it has occurred just before the weekend.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
The timing might seem early for a holiday movie, but Hollywood has a long history of premiering titles in early November so they can gain momentum through the Thanksgiving weekend and into the holidays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
New Zealand's Beauden Barrett had a stroll in for his second try in the win over Scotland last weekend as the hosts, admittedly a man down, were caught horribly narrow.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Then, “Well, not right now. Because I had to spend the weekend with my dad.”
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
He attributed the lackluster performance to the Georgia incident and its related ride closures, as well as bad weather on crucial weekends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
The four-person team travels to Chicago from their homes around the country to spend weekends in a test kitchen outfitted with an industrial chocolate melter, a chain saw and a chocolate spray gun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Sport in the region had already been heavily affected by the US-Iran conflict, which led to the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends in April this year.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
They most recently beat Fiji and Argentina and now face Australia, Japan, New Zealand and a Nations Championship play-off on successive weekends through November.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
And I'm only really counting weekdays there, which means tack on another fifty or so for the times he stopped by on the weekends.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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
At the Filling Station, an open-air burger joint on 9W popular with weekending families and cyclists, I learned maintenance tips from riders with legs so muscled they looked like bundles of firewood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
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
If I were weekending at Bodfish's, I should have arrived there just half an hour ago.
From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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