weekend
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Grills, who is 33 and lives in San Francisco, typically works 10 hours a day and takes one weekend day off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
After the spell of showery weather earlier this week, a strong area of high pressure is set to bring bright and sunny weather to much of the UK this weekend.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
A piglet that captured Los Angelenos’ hearts and minds after its attempts to elude multiple pursuers in West Hollywood last weekend went viral has been adopted by a foundation headed by Grammy-award-winning songwriter Diane Warren.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
After a long and somewhat uncomfortable few days of news, aren’t you looking forward to the weekend?
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
It was the weekend and they were on a local bus.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
But he has had to cut back evening entertainment from every night to weekends only.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The film based on the Greek epic poem has grossed $911 million after three weekends in theaters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
He came to my school shows, and even when I moved to Orange County, we still meticulously planned our weekends together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
But it’s not the only one: Two-thirds of survey respondents said they spent “quality time” with family on weekends, and 50% worked out at a gym.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
A few people lingered outside one of the restaurants that was open late on the weekends, waiting for a table, but most of the shops were dark, their storefronts nothing but metal grates and silence.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
