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Recent Examples of weekend
Fyre Festival was supposed to be an elaborate, weekend-long music festival in 2017, but its meltdown went viral on social media, as attendees documented makeshift tents and meager food offerings.
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Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
Plus eight more weekend-fun ideas from Times listings coordinator Matt Cooper.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
This winter, the team will sponsor a growing, weekend-long pond hockey tournament in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
—Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2021
Not many players in this field had experienced a multi-weekend run.
—Chad Lindskog, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2021
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Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
Plus eight more weekend-fun ideas from Times listings coordinator Matt Cooper.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
This winter, the team will sponsor a growing, weekend-long pond hockey tournament in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
—Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2021
Not many players in this field had experienced a multi-weekend run.
—Chad Lindskog, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2021
See All Example Sentences for weekend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weekend
Adjective
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At present, the association has roughly 80 year-round, full-time employees, although the number varies and part-time jobs can swell into the thousands during the fair in June and early July.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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The father-son duo also has two full-time and one part-time employees.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In December, Chelsea’s players looked inexplicably unprepared for the intensity of this long-time rivalry and were caught out via defensive errors.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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In the years that followed, Koh worked as a food delivery rider, a parcel courier, a bar worker and a livestreamer selling mobile accessories – experiences that fed directly into the third film’s portrait of a young man thrown unprepared into adult life.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The hungry yet uninitiated may enter the new 1986 Steak House, glance around and wonder whose likeness that is on the wall.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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His mini-concert in the Padres’ cafeteria and riffs in and around the clubhouse felt uncannily on time, even to my uninitiated ear.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Weekend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weekend. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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