weekend
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Winterich also recommended reducing the collection gradually — one box at a time, one story at a time — rather than trying to empty an attic in one weekend.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
OpenAI disclosed over the weekend that its agents had also reached the websites of three US federal agencies, after acknowledging last week that they had tried to access an Australian government site.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Protesters blocked the road over the weekend, and after a meeting with the Northern Ireland secretary, a representative of the road's residents said the Orange Order should focus on a different route.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The weekend before the event, the White House reversed course, nixing a debut of the full definition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
He climbed into her enclosure and sat cross-legged beside her, scratching behind her ears and thinking about the weekend.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
She said she no longer considered making extra journeys at weekends because of the cost.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
In one session, Sylvia mentioned: “On the weekends, I usually just make a meal out of the bread crusts I cut off my kids’ sandwiches.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
From a combination of mold exposure and severe burnout from filming “After Midnight” on weekdays and performing in different cities on weekends, she fell ill for months and was forced to take a break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
These weekends felt harmless at first and, perhaps you paid your way by taking care of dinners, which could almost cost as much as $500 over the course of two days.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
At first Klenam and I only went along to the farm on weekends, but as we grew older, we started going after school on weekdays too.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
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 scene was an ideal respite for WeWorkers and their friends — not just from working, but from weekending in the Hamptons.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2014
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
