weekend
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The beach volleyball power couple is competing in the AVP Manhattan Beach Open this weekend, continuing to focus on the competitive volleyball circuit that first brought them together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Temperatures are set to tumble this weekend as the fifth heatwave to scorch the UK this year comes to an end.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The airline's management has called the action "opportunistic" as it falls on a major national holiday weekend when airports are busy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Pardilla remembers bar hopping as a routine weekend activity.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
It was just like the boat that Dad used to have, that he took Jonah and me out fishing every weekend in, before it was awarded to Mom in the divorce.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Be warned, however, that on weekends, Guerneville is often short on parking.
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
They also appear together in “The Odyssey” which has grossed more than $911 million globally in three weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Rose, 24, is part of swimming group Cow Tower Dippers which meets at the river most weekends.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The weekends at Francis’s house were the happiest times.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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