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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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On Monday, the air will feel a little fresher compared to the weekend with maximum temperatures in northern areas of the UK around 18 to 24C.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

And then there was the episode of NBC’s “Weekend” news magazine, which would run in place of “Saturday Night Live” one weekend a month.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Typhoon Dolphin triggered a top-level alert over the weekend, prompting over 1,000 flight cancellations and tens of thousands of evacuations.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

In 1984, a round-trip weekend fare between New York and London on Pan Am cost $669, today’s equivalent of $2,150, according to a Wall Street Journal article from the time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

We take Friday off since we have all weekend to do my homework, so Mom decides to head to the library as soon as her shift is over.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

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

Half of Gen Z said they’re lonely on the weekends, the largest share of any generation.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Lily usually sleeps until at least ten 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

If I were weekending at Bodfish's, I should have arrived there just half an hour ago.

From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)




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