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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weekend
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In the North there was the police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and also the Ulster Defence Regiment, a mostly part-time division of the British Army made up of local volunteers.—
Colm Tóibín,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Phil Hampton, who works as a part-time delivery driver near Dallas to make extra money for his family of six, recently told CBS News.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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When this relocation process breaks down, and viscous black liquid flows into marine environments, plants and animals are evolutionarily unprepared.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Pushing unprepared students through high school and college diminishes the value of the degrees that students and families have sacrificed years and tens of thousands of dollars to attain.—
David Blobaum,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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For the three people left in the world who remain uninitiated, breakout stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play Shane Hudson and Ilya Rozanov, two rival hockey captains who fall in love over the course of a decade of yearning and clandestine hookups.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
19 Mar. 2026
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For those uninitiated, the McRib is sort of a big deal.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Weekend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weekend. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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