weekend
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Internet-famous bald eagle Jackie’s health is improving after a scare over the weekend, the latest twist in a saga that began when the raptor was rescued near Big Bear Lake earlier this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
It doubled to 16% on Monday compared to before the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Brazil’s destiny is for Brazilians alone to determine—without foreign interference or subservience,” da Silva wrote in an opinion article published in the Washington Post over the weekend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The search availability of the chat logs was removed over the weekend, but many were saved and shared widely online.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
A flyer is taped to the side of the holders, advertising a Battle of the Bands coming up next weekend.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Even as someone who works in food, my first meal of the day tends to veer utilitarian, including on weekends, when I may not eat it until 10 or 11.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
What I would have worn to the match at weekends, I just started wearing.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Because we work a lot and our days often belong to someone else from early in the morning until pretty late at night, weekends are more laid back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The pair cofounded the event as they said they noticed a "massively growing demand" for in-person retreat weekends as attendees made more space for wellness.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
I worked for Santa Maria Window Cleaners, helping Mike Nevel during the day and doing my regular job in the evenings and on weekends.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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
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
The evening of the second day had already come, when Ar-hap arrived home after weekending amongst a tribe of rebellious subjects.
From Gulliver of Mars by Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden
