weekend

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Recent Examples of weekend Meanwhile, an unprecedented number of bus drivers are out sick during the surge of the omicron variant, putting weekend-level bus service on the region’s roads seven days a week. Washington Post, 22 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 At these multi-weekend events, artisans sold jewelry, candles and clothing; musicians played lutes and flutes; and fire-eaters, jugglers, acrobats and jousters performed feats of medieval derring-do. Washington Post, 24 June 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
  • The tournament supported almost 1,500 full- and part-time jobs and generated $2.4 million in state and local taxes.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025
  • So, many of them lost the chance to have part-time jobs or volunteer—experiences that can be vital for navigating a workplace successfully.
    Jill Shedek, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Yet, many households are woefully unprepared to meet the challenges this entails.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement Yet as communities from the Eastern Seaboard to the Midwest are engulfed in record-breaking temperatures, the U.S. is now even more dangerously unprepared.
    Kathy Baughman McLeod, Time, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
  • Game players knew this was coming and fidgeted in their seats to see what their uninitiated friends and family would make of last night’s big The Last of Us episode.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Weekend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weekend. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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