A word or phrase might begin as a specialty term in sports, or another pastime, but then makes "a metaphorical extension," and begins to have a meaning beyond the pastime.
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Boys all over the nation are exploring Wayne's favorite pastime.
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Finding Mr. Modi has become something of a national pastime.
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It was just a "good pastime," and now it's dead.
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The Chinese print money like it's a national pastime today.
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They are no longer a pastime activity but an investment.
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Reading is a popular pastime, for both laymen and presidents.
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In America, presidential scandals are something of a national pastime.
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For example, Tiny Trump plays a beloved Trump pastime, golf.
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Instead, it has reverted to its favourite pastime of infighting.
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This is an Iranian and Chinese pastime to boot. Why?
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Football was the challenger turned champion, the new national pastime.
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Following and predicting interest rates have become the national pastime.
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LONDON — Talking about the weather is a British national pastime.
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If anything, trolling has become a national pastime on Twitter.
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Fetishizing black people's bodies has long been an American pastime.
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Parenting, I realized, is an unpaid job, not a pastime.
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Collecting the dead in Jérémie has become a cruel pastime.
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It was also a snapshot of a pastime in decline.
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Time now for another favorite pastime of baseball fans: whataboutery.
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Even Japan's favorite pastime — baseball — has been put on pause.
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She said their favorite pastime was playing with their dolls.
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Players of the new pastime, fantasy baseball, hungered for stats.
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Some students were taking the class just as a pastime.
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Speedskating on natural ice is a beloved Dutch national pastime.
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But at first, Priscilla's new pastime didn't go well at all.
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His dangerous pastime, however, came to him a few years later.
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" — SETH MEYERS "Wow, move over, baseball — there's a new national pastime.
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The art collection began as a "quiet pastime," Ms. Ward wrote.
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We've made a national pastime out of complaining about bikini shopping.
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And we all know a popular pastime for rebellious teens, right?
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BASHING the BBC, Britain's publicly funded broadcaster, is a national pastime.
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As tech has grown, policy debates have become an important pastime.
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Click here to view original GIFAir hockey is Canada's greatest pastime.
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Children ice skate on Yakutsk's Schorsa Lake, a popular winter pastime.
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So don't make any claims against what's really a simple pastime.
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Over the last few years, health has become a national pastime.
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This appears to be an especially indulgent pastime of conservative pundits.
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Following the stock market has, however, become a pastime for many.
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Ice-skating was a favorite pastime during winters in the city.
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At least no one could accuse him of national pastime pandering.
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The Baseball Food, the official meat tube of the national pastime.
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Getting turtles off with a vibrator isn't just an odd pastime.
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Forget actually playing ball—America's favorite pastime is betting on it.
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Unraveling hospital straws and medicine bottle stickers would become her pastime.
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Watching live video on Instagram will become your favorite daily pastime.
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His favorite pastime was jotting hip-hop lyrics into a pad.
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And yet Hopper indulged in the modern pastime of car travel.
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In the programming world, a popular pastime is apparently Java-bashing.
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We get that his pastime is glamorously serious and seriously glamorous.
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Ragging on Ford has become Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's favorite pastime.
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Porn is often (falsely) considered to be an entirely male pastime.
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According to multiple sources, his current favorite pastime is Segway polo.
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It's a pastime that extends to the way she makes music.
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"I'm old-school—I still believe baseball is America's pastime," says Rep.
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The diagnosis led Jacobs to give up her favorite pastime: horseback riding.
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Karaoke is just plain fun — even if it's not a regular pastime.
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The issue is when Baloo decided to take his favorite pastime indoors.
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Usually, judging the utter fantasy of The Bachelor is an amusing pastime.
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Fat shaming is a cruel, but popular, pastime in the human world.
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But that doesn't mean she doesn't appreciate her husband's post-presidency pastime.
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You can even practice while offline (a perfect pastime for long flights).
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TV time with his daughter was a favorite pastime for the actor.
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So why not select one based on the internet's favorite pastime: astrology?
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People-watching is, perhaps, New York City commuters' number one shared pastime.
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Shopping montages are dead because going shopping as a pastime is dead.
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By the mid-20th century, road tripping was an iconic American pastime.
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Fast food is, and forever will be, the most quintessential American pastime.
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Square dancing has long been a pastime synonymous with down-home heteronormativity.
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After baseball, caring about our troops is perhaps our second national pastime.
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Arguing about them is far more an aristocratic pastime than camp itself.
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First and foremost, walking as a pastime is a joy for you.
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Maybe it was cruel, this futile attempt to cling to our pastime.
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For most of its long history, college football was a local pastime.
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Contributing Opinion Writer Mocking millennials has become a sport and a pastime.
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That is no longer the case, the pastime having long been suburbanized.
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Maybe because thinking Jared Leto is hot is an equal-opportunity pastime.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The swapping of Buddy stories is a common pastime here.
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Not unlike in the US, politics in Ghana is a national pastime.
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Think, for instance, of the sport football displaced as America's pastime: baseball.
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Heck—reinterpreting art with little digital faces and icons is practically international pastime.
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"People perceive yo-yoing as this wholesome American pastime," says photographer Chona Kasinger.
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BurgersBurgers are a national pastime and Chicago is no exception to this rule.
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Others play cards, a popular pastime for athletes who are competitive by nature.
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"Kissing is my favorite pastime, I reckon," says one man with Down Syndrome.
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But group entertainment, from storytellers to radio to Netflix, is traditional family pastime.
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That isn't totally crazy; after all, lead character Noctis' favorite pastime is fishing.
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That dispute, he said, was not the impetus to pursue the American pastime.
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And then honor those guys by partaking in the truest American pastime: shopping.
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This in itself is an imaginative and creative pastime and causes no harm.
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Once a national pastime, the genre has now become a bit more niche.
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However passionately they justify it, it's a pastime that happens to be illegal.
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"I love talking — it's my favorite pastime," she explained to host Jimmy Fallon.
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This fits in with the idea that drinking is mainly a social pastime.
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Argentines, however, are prone to overreact, and alarmist theatrics are a national pastime.
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Not every product or pastime embraced by software engineers will become a hit.
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The nation's capital has a long, if complicated, relationship with the national pastime.
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Arguing about rickshaws is as big a pastime in Dhaka as riding them.
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The Chinese ability to sleep wherever, whenever, is something of a national pastime.
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At this point, hand-wringing about Kyrgios has become a popular Australian pastime.
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Finding hidden sexual innuendos within children's cartoons has become a popular internet pastime.
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On the outside, reading books is usually a pastime, and sometimes a chore.
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Collecting art became a pastime for Ms. Cohen, then blossomed into a lifestyle.
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But her affectionate exegesis of this pastime, this passion, this "temporary madness," succeeds.
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Complaining about what the neighbors are building, of course, is a local pastime.
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Favorite pastime: Glamping (glam camping, natch) Celebrity idols: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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Washington (CNN)Painting isn't former President George W. Bush's only post-presidential pastime.
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But on Japan's streets, the sport is considered a pastime of unruly children.
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America's pastime kicks off the 2019 season, with the earliest opening day ever.
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America has competition when it comes to claiming baseball as its national pastime.
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There's something about America's pastime that unites members of Congress from both parties.
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We spend an hour dissecting his love life (a favorite pastime of mine).
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Summary: America's favorite pastime is enduring an assault of new thoughts and ideas.
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Salonology is a pastime of the French media, particularly in a preëlection year.
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Golf has long been a favorite pastime of world leaders, including U.S. presidents.
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They also wanted a place to indulge their other favorite family pastime: tennis.
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Of course, any gamer would say that their chosen pastime is inherently social.
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Blackface is a shameful American pastime dating to early 19th century minstrel shows.
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That's the best way to make sure this pastime of ours moves forward.
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We just love signing things here; after football, it is our national pastime.
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Decrying social media bias has been a favorite pastime of Republicans this year.
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Throwing the cones and retrieving them is a favourite pastime of the polar bears.
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Last month, the Save America's Pastime Act was introduced in the House of Representatives.
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The kind of experience I'm describing is something of a national pastime in Norway.
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Attacking Jeff Bezos, the founder and boss of Amazon, is a uniquely bipartisan pastime.
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When the country was founded, attending public court proceedings was practically a national pastime.
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Competitive running is a notoriously injury-prone pastime, even for those with full sight.
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PS: Do you consider yourself a nerd and, if so, what's your nerdiest pastime?
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Scenes of people playing soccer offer an appropriate homage to the country's national pastime.
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Assessing investors' relationship to risk is more than a casual pastime for financial advisors.
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Accusing large institutions of bias is the national pastime of the modern conservative movement.
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To its millions of adherents, Dota is closer to a lifestyle than a pastime.
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My greatest fear just happens to be most of the nation's favorite summer pastime.
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It also includes an informative history lesson on how this pastime of ours evolved.
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Scrutinizing candidates for how they eat has almost become a national political pastime. Sen.
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Prank videos are a popular Internet pastime that are spreading rapidly to other sites.
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If you love reading,, which makes it that much easier to enjoy the pastime.
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Perhaps that explains the dedication he's shown to his latest pastime: Hunting Russian trolls.
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Acting was thought of as more of a pastime than a serious career option.
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"Pastime" is not performed in silence; it is accompanied by a Philip Corner score.
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The popularity of the pastime, and the number of rinks, grew as technology advanced.
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A favorite pastime on the internet is looking at tattoos that have gone wrong.
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The stars, after all, are vlogging—a pastime popularized by the platform's homegrown talent.
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Video games can be a fun pastime, but for some it&aposs a livelihood.
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His favorite pastime was riding his BMX bike and doing wheelies down the street.
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"Selection Day" is a cricket novel that maintains a running critique of that pastime.
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Wounding the vainglorious is a pleasing pastime in itself and contributes to their demoralization.
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Stay tuned for other events throughout the year that will celebrate our favorite pastime.
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It's like a national pastime to marvel at how the job ages them. Right.
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Indeed, live-tweeting Fox & Friends has become something of a pastime for the president.
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Betting may have been the Mahony family business, but it never was the family's pastime.
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We used to preserve it out of necessity, now we preserve it as a pastime.
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The game was called Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron, a role-playing pastime of baroque complexity.
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But unlike many other boys, David and Kenny had a reason for disliking America's pastime.
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The National Pastime is not just a diversion but the white noise of our lives.
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Might it also include an unpaid pastime by which a person defines himself or herself?
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First Words Is it possible that anger qualifies, at this point, as a national pastime?
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As teenagers, they see technology as a fun, customizable pastime that mediates friendships and flirtations.
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Despite a harrowing cycle of government repression and bloodshed, the pastime has continued to thrive.
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If the first love is the deepest, read:A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
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With little else to do, a favourite pastime of its denizens was to share stories.
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And thanks to social media, living vicariously through others has basically become a national pastime.
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Sleep is now a luxury pastime, and one that's evolved into a bona fide economy.
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Does that experience make boxing seem more like a job than a hobby or pastime?
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In Canada, where rugby remains very much a niche pastime, he is a mystery man.
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Inspired by the World Series, we're eager for some smart guesses about baseball, America's pastime.
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Chernoff is used to fans voicing their opinions, a pastime that followed him to Cleveland.
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America's pastime is back and lawmakers are busy Monday celebrating Major League Baseball's Opening Day.
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While athletic, Bunbury, 27, tells PEOPLE she had no prior experience in America's favorite pastime.
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State of the Art Pottery, improbably, is the latest escapist pastime to sweep the nation.
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Trump capped off his weekend with a favorite pastime: attacking failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Hating Congress is an American national pastime, and that's not likely to change anytime soon.
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For all its obvious connections to the American pastime, baseball is not an American import.
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"I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it," he said.
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This is not the first time that Trump's foreign policy has impacted America's pastime abroad.
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One of the newest eateries to bow to this beloved culinary pastime is Filigrana Delicatessen.
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There are millions of people who peddle deceit for money, it's almost a national pastime.
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I asked him which pastime was more lucrative and he gave me a pitying look.
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The pastime has long been a part of New York life and continues to thrive.
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Edwards also nodded to the state's other pastime on autumn Saturdays: Louisiana State University football.
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She discovered the pastime while visiting Toronto and decided to bring it to New York.
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On the most challenging parts: Making bread is simultaneously the simplest and most challenging pastime.
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" Community manager Lucas Miller (@lucasmiller3) also tweeted: "So #amazonspark is going to be a dangerous pastime.
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Some researchers dismissed music as "auditory cheesecake," a pastime that co-opted other essential communicative urges.
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The promotion of art is always an artist's least favored pastime and Krug is no different.
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The bogus aura of ceremonial dispute is his lone alternative to his primary pastime: intellectual masturbation.
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Although we won't move for another month, my favorite pastime is planning how to furnish places.
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A new federal court ruling has put the nation's favorite pastime – online streaming binges – in jeopardy.
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Live performances of music from the screen are slowly creeping up as a coveted fan pastime.
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Soon, looking at models in patriotic swimsuits at Swift's annual bash became a treasured national pastime.
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Although his parents didn't foresee basketball becoming more than a pastime, they always supported his career.
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The notion of a pastime paradise on the fringes of a ghetto is fraught with complexity.
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Teigen revealed her hilarious pastime on The Ellen Show, joking that Rihanna owes $18 to Bugatti.
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Nasty speech on Twitter is not only legal in the United States, it's a national pastime.
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Litigation: Congress passed the Save America's Pastime Act last March, which denied minor leaguers overtime pay.
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In the meantime, I suspect pronouncing righteously upon the Clinton marriage will remain a national pastime.
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The new year is here, so it's time for everyone's favorite pastime: publicly declaring unrealistic resolutions.
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Jessica Alba has found a new favorite pastime with her infant son Hayes: binge-watching television.
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Gawking at the 1% is a national pastime, and don't tell us you haven't done it.
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But let's not forget another favorite summer pastime: the air-conditioned, day-long movie marathon binge.
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YouTube channel The Epidemic created a video (above) to advocate for the great fictional pastime. See!
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Has anyone going "off the air" left you feeling less engaged with a pastime you loved?
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It flourished as a courtly pastime in Persia in late antiquity, having originated, probably, in India.
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From Starcraft 2 to Fortnite, watching people play competitive video games is becoming an American pastime.
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For now, cockpits keep welcoming regulars, who insist the pastime already has been made more humane.
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Change the idea that global migration is thievery, a pastime, a decision made on a whim.
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But in Russia, obsessing about victories past or present, military or artistic, is a national pastime.
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At this point, bingeing TV shows on Netflix and other streaming services is a national pastime.
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Taxidermy was a common hobby in Potter's time, considered a suitable pastime even for genteel ladies.
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The popularization of the crayon, in the nineteen-thirties, brought the pastime to a wider audience.
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Gathering with a crowd to watch election-night returns is by no means a new pastime.
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Birding, I was to learn, is a pastime that requires patience and a sense of humor.
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Denying the centrality of the colonies to the progress of Britain is almost a national pastime.
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Boozy weekend brunches are an American pastime as beloved as football and political arguments at Thanksgiving.
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So watching two random people master the carnal act has never been my pastime of choice.
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Until recently, painting was a pastime, overshadowed by his career of discovering and selling other artists.
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Pastime Paradise Finally, two books by authors with outsized literary personas align with your father's hobbies.
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Egos If baseball is the great American pastime, driving may be the great American time waste.
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"Politics is like the American pastime, baseball," Carson told VICE News after the event on Wednesday.
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That pastime has been transported to New York, where finch smuggling has become a big business.
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Watching Netflix has become our national pastime in this era of COVID-19 and social distancing.
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Do you think that still happens now that the pastime has caught on among more people?
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Attacking Australian government systems seems to be a pastime for cheeky international DDoS groups and hackers.
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Heidi Krol enjoys watching her Anatolian Shepherd go back to his favorite pastime, watching her goats.
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The Great Read Two brothers have given everything to treat raptors injured by a popular pastime.
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MiLB on Wednesday expressed support for the Save America's Pastime Act, introduced last week by Reps.
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Although lamenting "vanishing New York" has become a macabre pastime for some, Pietro's remains strangely uncanonized.
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In the years before "Blonde," waiting for new Frank Ocean became something like a national pastime.
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In a region where treasure hunting is a pastime, they pride themselves on being the best.
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Some are saying the French pastime of idling over a coffee may no longer be sacrosanct.
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Baseball was the so-called American pastime then; the first Super Bowl was still in the future.
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Sitting around a table or the living room playing games is still a pastime my family enjoys.
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It will create a picture of the two leaders enjoying a favorite pastime to cap the trip.
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Of course, we're talking about the Mannequin Challenge, the internet's latest pastime — and planking's sportier, younger sibling.
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In 1999, Hannah Spinrad was a pre-teen figure skater whose favorite pastime was ripping Got Milk?
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But the crowds flocking to DragWorld demonstrate how an underground pastime has broken into the cultural mainstream.
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Seems like it may be time for the pair to revisit that fun family pastime once again.
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Ten years after their invention, using cryptocurrencies to pay for goods and services remains a niche pastime.
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For others, it is a highly addictive, potentially ruinous pastime that threatens sporting integrity by encouraging corruption.
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For a moment, I was worried that OITNB actually approved of this game as a fun pastime.
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By trade, Pharoah used to be a handyman, but his pastime has always been feeding his family.
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He lists his hobbies as "kicking in doors," which seems like as good a pastime as any.
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Although ostensibly about the great American pastime, baseball here serves as a metaphor for more profound issues.
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Assessing the value of something — be it a house or a person — is practically an American pastime.
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Hating on Amazon, while the company continues to earn mountains of profit, has become a national pastime.
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Now, I'm not the most well-versed person when it comes to the rules of America's Pastime.
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Many napped, by far the most common pastime here, with genteel drinking coming in a distant second.
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They harken to a time when cinema was America's greatest pastime and a primary form of representation.
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Reading through a couple of old newspaper clippings, Bisson Sykes mourned a pastime inexorably slipping into memory.
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Professional auto racing—from Formula 24 to Nascar to IndyCar—is the ultimate strategy and calculations pastime.
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It turns graffiti from a creative pastime into a lifestyle choice and it weeds out the weak.
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These days he's taking on a national pastime, one with the power to both unite and divide.
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Perusing real estate websites was a pastime of hers, and that day she was searching in Bridgewater.
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Walker, among the Republicans who have found a new pastime in snarking about the newly elected Rep.
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Thankfully, you have responded with the same love and curiosity I have for this pastime of ours.
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However, it's not just the monotony of self-isolation that's brought this pastime back into the spotlight.
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Let Sean Lomax, a world champion whistler, explain the finer points of this pastime and musical art.
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Like the earlier movies, this one hews to the series doctrine that larceny is America's favorite pastime.
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After decades as a blue-collar pastime, boxing has been repurposed for the fitness-obsessed young professional.
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But for Mr. Molina and Mr. Voss, this is more than an enjoyable pastime; it's a living.
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"I won't be greedy and say we're going to replace cricket as the national pastime," he says.
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As shows like "To Catch a Predator" débuted and awareness grew, registrant-shaming became a popular pastime.
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Hunting was once a man's pastime in Norway, one of the last bastions of macho male culture.
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American boaters, on the whole, are middle class; the pastime is most popular in the inland Midwest.
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Here, most people view the American pastime, if they know it at all, as a faraway curiosity.
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I'll freely admit that this favorite pastime of mine is maybe, just maybe, a little bit creepy.
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Congressman Brett Guthrie and Congresswoman Cheri Bustos introduce the Save America's Pastime Act in House of Reps pic.twitter.
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Comparing Senator Bernie Sanders with reality television star Donald Trump has become something of an election-watching pastime.
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But predicting a Cubs win is a storied pastime that pop culture has been engaging in for decades.
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Robots who use tread wheels, baseball cannons and scoop hands to make a joke out of America's pastime.
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Recently, a 23-year-old college student named Nick tried out a new pastime: building 3D virtual worlds.
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And then there were the lighters and cigarette cases to accessorize the newly fashionable toxic pastime of smoking.
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But this sugary pastime has a sinister side, as Quebeckers are now learning through a sensational criminal trial.
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If waiting on sales were a professional pastime, well, we'd be in the hall of fame by now.
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In one, black identity can leave blerds alienated over their passion for what's seen as a white pastime.
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Mindlessly watching TV is a pastime enjoyed by many humans, and it seems dolphins are into it too.
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But players want nothing short of a miracle to save what many considered their primary post-work pastime.
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It was a favorite pastime of Niccol growing up, though, unlike in the movie, he did it alone.
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For folks who don't believe in astrology, all of this is unhinged, a useless recreational pastime gone awry.
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Donald Trump's presidential campaign is revisiting a cherished pastime, picking a fight with the "fake news station" CNN.
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As collecting them with other ephemera in albums was a popular 19th-century pastime, quite a few survive.
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It wasn't football or church but felt as much a religious pastime as those other two Southern faiths.
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Your favorite pastime is tearing down the new column by centrist Dems like Jonathan Chait or Joy Reid.
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For all those who argue porn is a harmless pastime, this article should shock us all wide awake.
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Many Americans view Frisbee as nothing more than a laid-back pastime — one primarily reserved for Starbucks baristas.
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And no matter the winner, fans get to leave the game with a fun memento celebrating America's pastime.
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He found the faces while searching through images on Google, which is something of a pastime for him.
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Baseball is called America's pastime, but Japan has been cultivating the sport in soccer-crazed Africa for years.
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These amenities aren't unique to Jiaoxi or Taiwan; hot spring destinations are a favorite pastime for Taiwanese locals.
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Of course, bashing central bankers is always a popular and easy pastime for politicians, economists and investors alike.
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Auctions are a bellwether of demand in property-obsessed Australia, where attending sales is almost a national pastime.
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Once a popular pastime on city tenement rooftops, the hobby has dropped off amid escalating real estate prices.
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Still, a favorite pastime remains the registering of complaints to friends, relatives or no one about air travel.
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I spent a lot of time on my favorite pastime: pacing up and down the corridor, drinking tea.
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There is even an online magazine edited by the Symmys champion Mark Saltveit devoted solely to this pastime.
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Satirizing Donald Trump's tweets is so beloved an Internet pastime that Twitter teems with parody accounts doing it.
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Yet official attitudes have been ambivalent toward a sport that was seen as a pastime of the rich.
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Recently, Ratajkowski's pastime seems to be spreading the gospel on female sexuality with her new wingwoman, Kim Kardashian.
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Bird-watching — or birding, as its practitioners prefer — might seem like a relaxing pastime for a dying woman.
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Early chat rooms introduced a generation of kids to the pastime of pretending to be other people online.
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The pastime has been transformed by cellphone videos, social media debates and a growing desire to shame cheaters.
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It's official: The masterminds behind America's true favorite pastime known as hate-watching The Bachelor(ette)—sorry, baseball!
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For ethnic Koreans in Japan, one route to economic improvement has been pachinko, a pastime derived from pinball.
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In 503, more than 100,000 spectators were, in the words of one sportswriter, "unbearably bored" by America's pastime.
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But when rising temperatures threatened her beloved pastime as a cross-country skier, Hatton dug into the data.
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Rumored to be a pastime of Cleopatra, the baths are supposedly moisturizing for dry skin some centuries later.
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It sounds like the quintessential hipster-baiting pastime — the perfect pseudo-sport for certain twee, bubble-dwelling Brooklynites.
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Over the past 291 years, the pastime has earned her $9,372,441, reports USA Today, citing data from MyRacing.com.
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Now the august custodians of our national pastime are forced to consider changes to the game's sacred text.
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I have always been an avid reader, but I took this pastime to the next level in prison.
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The company also appears to be nervous about another favorite Mark Zuckerberg pastime: ripping off other companies' core features.
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The game, of course, carried political implications that felt bigger than international baseball operations and the countries' shared pastime.
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It was an escape, a lifelong pastime and a key element to the narrative that propelled his meteoric rise.
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For a couple years in college, I enjoyed the art of smoking — a pastime with many well-known repercussions.
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A president's golf play is far from controversial: In fact, it's the most common pastime of the country's leaders.
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License plate hunting, like birding, is a pastime that is impossible to turn off once you've turned it on.
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Far from it being a pastime, learning English as a second language was a necessity to further her career.
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These captivating environments make loving Luigi â€" practically an international pastime at this point â€" all the more rewarding.
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Is appropriation — of someone else's national pastime, for instance — a way to grow or a way to sell out?
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As we've seen recently, even Miss Universes aren't immune to worrying about weight, which is a popular American pastime.
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However, researchers and parents are now scratching their heads about whether this pastime offers educational or even health benefits.
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For years, deriding the fripperies of social media has practically become a national pastime, an easy piece of snobbery.
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Many Thanksgiving dinners are saved when someone turns on a football game, an apolitical pastime we all can enjoy.
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I think I have found a new pastime, and it might involve doing jump cut edits with my dog.
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By the time I left SI in 2003, it was largely because I was done with the national pastime.
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But the video-games industry has spent decades trying to shed its image as an unwholesome pastime for oddballs.
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For some, jigsaw puzzles are a slow, relaxing pastime that exercise the creative and logic centers of the mind.
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On weekends and vacations, though, he applies his systematic rigor to a very different pastime: taking pictures of buildings.
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A popular pastime was filming people as they reacted to the final scene, and it takes us right back!
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Embracing the darkness is something of an inherited pastime for Ibrahim Azzam, 26, whose family home rarely has power.
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He makes sure his son gets well acquainted with his favorite pastime of killing stuff even bigger than him.
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The traditional King's Day flea market gives the Dutch a chance to indulge in their favourite pastime: bargain-hunting.
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It may seem like a fun pastime, but the app might have potential psychological effects, both good and bad.
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Such moments often create opportunities for the president to engage in his Twitter pastime, and Tuesday was no exception.
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While bashing tech has become a favorite Washington pastime, it may not resonate beyond the Beltway and coastal cities.
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When the tradition made its way to the US, it had become more of a "secular pastime," TIME reports.
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Yet he carries on with the devotional fervor of someone whose life's work is an all-consuming, ecstatic pastime.
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As anyone who follows baseball or saw the 2011 film "Moneyball" knows, America's favorite pastime now runs on data.
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They should amuse and engage kids and serve as a pleasant pastime that can be enjoyed again and again.
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Despite that, war-treasure hunting is such a popular pastime in Poland that enthusiasts have their own web forum.
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Having spent many nights figuring out the logistics, Roa managed to get his celestial pastime down to a science.
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I make this point to say that it's not like Lithuania doesn't have impressive venues for their national pastime.
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Manfred missed a chance to send an unequivocal message that America's pastime will have nothing to do with racism.
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It's a popular pastime among those of us who watch TV professionally, as well as many people who don't.
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The nine artists treat the sport not simply as a beloved pastime but as a cultural phenomenon worth examining.
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For normal people, $25 only furthers the widespread and unfortunate impression that art is a pastime for the elite.
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The pastime has also been revived in real life, though with a less meandering character than in the past.
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If Bradley wanted fans to root based on the play of their favorite team, he banned the wrong pastime.
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Aides consider the issue a rare opportunity to appeal to Republicans: Neither party has a monopoly on America's pastime.
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House Republicans appear to have a new favorite pastime: Keeping Americans from ever being able to go to court.
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"My favorite pastime was going to astrologers, spending money I didn't have on astrologers way back when," she said.
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Cavorting with death is a common Western pastime, in the way I might go to brunch or a museum.
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Turns out basketball wasn't the only American pastime introduced to the Germans in Berlin in the summer of '36.
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Or maybe you just want to treat yourself to something that lets the world know about your favorite pastime.
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Interpreting his slippery lyrics became a favorite pastime of the band's most fervent fans, the Deadheads, something he relished.
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The weekend offers Civil War re-enactments, a parade and a baseball game, a favorite pastime of Buxton settlers.
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After all, the shopping holiday is predicated on the idea of spending money on yourself — a favorite American pastime.
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Go to have fun and meet up with a lot of people who love this odd pastime of ours.
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Meghan Markle's first solo project as the Duchess of Sussex focuses on a pastime she's famously fond of: cooking.
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How do you create an American pastime when there is no unified idea of what America is any more?
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Sometimes, a bodega can act as a mini United Nations, bringing people together who bond over the same pastime.
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The US economy is in collapse (and the country's international standing is trash), but the national pastime is shopping.
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What began as exhibitions of the national pastime had a way of ending as something more like the circus.
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On one of those visits, he discovered that North Korea had a pastime in common with his home country.
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His main pastime is working on an ill-advised well that yields no water but plenty of metaphorical juice.
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Finding my MEA proved very effective at slowly improving my stamina until running replaced walking as an enjoyable pastime.
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Some set out specifically to find their twin, in an engaging pastime that gives museum visits a new focus.
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Knowing what kids are up to online is a parental pastime and every guardian has their own biggest fear.
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Nevertheless, the portrait's eight-month-long display celebrates our nation's most beloved current pastime: sitting in front of a screen.
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At least studying the physics of it all serves as a nice pastime while we wait to dissolve into nothingness.
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Bill and Melinda Gates might be billionaires, but they still have one completely relatable pastime: binge watching PBS's "Victoria" together.
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Could "occupation," for instance, denote a primary vocation, a part-time avocation or even just a paid hobby or pastime?
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By using the gesture before the A's game against the Texas Rangers, Maxwell brought America's pastime into the political fray.
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Here, they mix awkwardly with locals at places like the Elkhorn Club & Linda's Thai Room cafe and Central Pastime bar.
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Her favorite pastime is riding her horse, Rudy, whom she houses in a barn just 15 minutes away from campus.
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It's patriotic, really — she returned to the great American pastime of posting glamor shots on the internet on Independence Day.
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Being engrossed in the world of tech can prove to be an expensive pastime, but it doesn't have to be.
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Gaming the American tax code used to be a select, corporate sport, but it now looks to become everyman's pastime.
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Though gossiping about celebrity pregnancy is a popular pastime, the topic of miscarriage is all too often treated as taboo.
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But when Obama indulged the same pastime, he was relentlessly critical, mocking and chastising the former president at ever opportunity.
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These days, our ardor for the national pastime hasn't changed much, but we certainly have more devices to yell at.
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Skipper Kim Eun-jung said Yuna was one of her inspirations to turn her fun pastime into an Olympic pursuit.
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Fortunately for NASA's Curiosity rover, which just celebrated its fifth year on Mars, this pastime is not unique to Earth.
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Melania is a former model, so wearing dresses and being photographed in them isn't just a pastime, it's a profession.
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For all of his time with performing and the sweet science, however, Kelley said his favorite pastime was more cerebral.
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With the introduction of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, binge-watching has now become a popular pastime.
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Weekend tours and tastings, a popular pastime with expats and NGO workers, are often booked out two months in advance.
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Together Britain and Canada can laugh at the crudeness of us Americans, a favorite shared pastime and an understandable one.
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New York City is loaded with friendly cyclists who want to help you fall in love with their favorite pastime.
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The critics saw our pointless, difficult, obsessive pastime becoming exponentially more popular, and beloved home breaks ruined by terminal overcrowding.
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Saudi Arabia Next year, Saudis will get to enjoy a pastime everybody else takes for granted: going to the movies.
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"In our youth, rap was like sports, a pastime," said Brav, a fellow rapper who has known Médine since childhood.
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America's appetite for highbrow whodunits, tabloid true crime, noir reprises, miscarriages of justice may be benign enough as a pastime.
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At the Pika gatherings, she found friends that approached coding the same way she did: as outlet, pastime and calling.
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It was for aspirational messy adults who were still young enough to consider legal binge drinking an unspeakably glamorous pastime.
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Bridge, the time-honored pastime of senior citizens (among others), has just begun a marketing campaign to attract new players.
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Lamenting the lost Alexandria is a favorite local pastime, and my aunt Lola, now 67, is as wistful as anyone.
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This is one of the biggest misconceptions about this pastime of ours, and it's what stops people from even trying.
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With NASCAR struggling and new American F1 leadership, it's possible the pastime can make a permanent mark on U.S. soil.
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Eager to assimilate completely, the child will embrace the patriotic symbols — the flag, the president, the military, the national pastime.
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The transformation of genetic genealogy from a geeky pastime to a crime-fighting business opportunity has taken another leap forward.
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For other Chinese-American households, though, the fear of missing out on a national pastime can be a strong motivator.
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It was a beautiful pastime she had missed; hours that had stepped light-footed on Emilia's memory and passed on.
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This approach leads to massive enforcement costs, not to mention the human costs of incarcerating people for a victimless pastime.
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America's pastime has proved once again that anything is possible if you work hard and are dedicated and believe in yourself.
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Comedians sell out stadiums and comedy has moved from being a niche pastime to a major force on TV and radio.
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Climbing gyms have mushroomed around the globe in the past decade, making the pastime safer and more accessible to city dwellers.
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TENNIS was born as a leisurely pastime for the upper class, meant to be played at whatever pace the participants favoured.
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Gaming has evolved dramatically over the years: from a scientific experiment to a national pastime to a booming, multibillion-dollar industry.
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Many of the cast hail from South Africa, where singing is not only a national pastime, but was a political imperative.
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What used to be a pastime reserved for the most committed television fans is now sweeping the nation – and the world.
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A FAVOURITE PASTIME of air passengers is to moan about all the extra fees that airlines have introduced in recent years.
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Although Joan admits she started her Instagram blog as a "fun pastime," the hobby has grown to be much more meaningful.
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Bad weather baseball is becoming less and less of an anomaly as climate change continues to mess with our national pastime.
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Gardening is probably a wiser pastime for her than tweeting ... considering that's what led to her hit ABC sitcom being canceled.
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Anyway, tennis is a way better pastime than pissing off Mayan Gods by pulling down your pants -- so kudos to Bieber.
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The National Pastime Museum, at this point a digital-only archive, recently announced that Christie's would be auctioning off its collection.
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Finding digits of pi may be a favorite pastime for researchers with idle supercomputers, but this is mostly just showing off.
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Though the new season began with a decidedly traditional event (fox hunting in 1925), even that aristocratic pastime was in flux.
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They try to learn a variation of mah-jongg and battle over sungka, a traditional Filipino pastime played with cowrie shells.
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They are: Singapore has a reputation for being a food paradise and discovering new food haunts is many Singaporeans' favourite pastime.
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Baseball is our national pastime, so it's not surprising that one of our best-known poems is based on the game.
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Warm and Cozy Soy Candle, $17.99Their favorite winter pastime is curling up by a warm fire wrapped in a fuzzy blanket.
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The accessibility of Oblivion propelled The Elder Scrolls from a niche PC gaming pastime to a sat-on-the-sofa phenomenon.
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It is a pastime in the strictest sense possible (Cubans may not have much money, but they are rich in time).
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In America, we are consumed with the idea of leisure, that pastime at which we are, as a country, particularly unskilled.
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So you can easily pull out the SPF stick and use it when you're rock-climbing, another David Lee Roth pastime.
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Enjoying tea and a hookah filled with fruit-flavored tobacco is a favorite post-meal (or anytime, really) pastime of Cairenes.
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Gallery-going is a favorite pastime when he is on tour, and a Picasso of an acrobat quickly caught his eye.
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Families get their kids into the sport at a young age, and going to watch the matches is a big pastime.
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That would be demeaning not only to this puzzle solving pastime of ours, but also to the people who make them.
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Lounging on the grass in Caddebostan is a local pastime: People bring their beers, cigarettes and books and spend the afternoon.
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Iris found a way to turn what most of us think of as an elementary-school pastime into a serious career.
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That might not sound like the most uplifting pastime, but once you've committed to another "Bad Boys," well, whatcha gonna do?
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The difference between the oldest work ("Pastime," 1963) and the newest ("Into View," 2016) is one of vocabulary rather than spirit.
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Sanders allies have made a pastime out of highlighting examples of media outlets ignoring or downplaying Sanders's standing in the polls.
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And of the 77 million American households with at least one camper, 2.6 million are new to the pastime, KOA reports.
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The pastime has been halted as the government maintains a shutdown of popular entertainment spots where "cross infection risks" are high.
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The most cherished winter pastime of the Upper Midwest still endures, and still lacks any real frills or pesky safety features.
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It's a pastime with a double objective: It gives hunters practice at skinning rodents and helps to control the nutria population.
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Telecom policy expert Harold Feld said that cherry picking and massaging economic data has been a telecom sector pastime for years.
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Eventually, it occurred to me that my new pastime had no practical application — not for me, and not for the dog.
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The one pastime we had always bonded over — solving crossword puzzles — was now a cruel symbol of what he was losing.
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KCMU and Sub Pop Records both began as a pastime for music hobbyists who liked to stay indoors and play records.
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Exploring the physical print of the maze is, just like exploring a city, a unique, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately captivating pastime.
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It also has led to a noxious PR battle, including a bill introduced in Congress called the Save America's Pastime Act.
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Trying to psychoanalyze Julian Assange and discern the motives behind WikiLeaks constant disclosures became a popular pastime during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Trying to psychoanalyze Julian Assange and discern the motives behind WikiLeaks constant disclosures became a popular pastime during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Gambling was an almost ubiquitous pastime but offered a particular appeal to those eager to get ahead and to change their circumstances.
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But Messi's favorite pastime is climbing on the toilet window and staring out of it at the vast grassland surrounding the apartment.
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Join your favorite FOX News Channel personalities for America&aposs pastime on Saturday, July 28th or Sunday, July 29th at Yankee Stadium.
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Falconry was originally used for hunting in the Middle East and Asia, but later became a bourgeois pastime during the Romantic period.
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YouTube has a similar ban for teaching theft techniques, but that's a much less popular (and expansive) pastime than learning about computers.
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So might a once-popular Atlanta pastime: purporting to recognise people amid the thousands of fighting, writhing, dying figures captured in oils.
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As Babb wrote then: …college football fits somewhere between pastime and obsession, and like church, it is more than a weekend activity.
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Kelly Ripa got to take part in her favorite pastime this weekend — calling out the people who troll her on social media.
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Cards started to appear in America in the mid 19th century and quickly ballooned into a Valentine's Day pastime here as well.
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A new generation of youngsters was introduced to the sport; die-hard fans were reminded why baseball is known as "America's pastime".
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If you follow baseball with even a passing interest, you know that nearly everyone's got a way to "fix" the national pastime.
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There was a time back in the '90s when I read my little maroon Zagat for hours as an after-work pastime.
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Beijing (CNN)It's the US President's preferred weekend pastime and one he's used to strike up a rapport with other world leaders.
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Another pastime: The younger Flynn remains active in alt-right Twitter circles and was a vocal supporter of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
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But they are ardent defenders of what they see as the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt: hunting as a pastime complementary to conservation.
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Julia's been featured on Sports Illustrated before, so it looks like she's getting back to her OG pastime in the modeling department.
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It's a pastime that rewards obsessives: Every detail, no matter how small, could wind up being a matter of life and death.
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Motorsport is a pastime he still pursues, and his racing mentality has seemingly rubbed off on the car company he now steers.
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Dutch seamen sailed as a pastime in the 17th century, the same era that Dutch settlers first landed in New York Harbor.
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"This is politics transmitted into pastime—politics-as-drug-experience, perhaps—rather than anything capable of transforming society," Srnicek and Williams write.
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Boating is a popular pastime in Sherman, which wraps around the upper part of Candlewood Lake, the state's largest body of freshwater.
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Pointing a finger has become the standard political pastime and what passes for a rebuttal to the other side's point of view.
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With close to 13 million registered boats across the United States, there is no doubt that boating is a favored American pastime.
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A favorite local pastime in the city of Keokuk, Iowa, is searching for geodes, or magnificent crystallized rocks, in the Keokuk Creek.
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Officials in Tenerife also took the lead in the European Union in promoting stargazing as a tourism pastime in other nations, too.
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The musician poses in an Instagram with one cat, who appears to have no eyes, and remarks on their other favorite pastime.
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A streaming deal with Facebook extends MLB's reach to a younger generation, which has steadily become less engaged in America's favorite pastime.
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A South African judge is under fire for allegedly suggesting that black men in the country see rape as a "pleasurable" pastime.
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And here's a glimpse into the scooter-charging subculture called "Bird hunting" that has become a pastime for teens and young professionals.
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Recently, though, I've noticed a disturbing problem with the Spelling Bee — one that could doom its existence as a great American pastime.
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At Pastime 32, a vintage-inspired craft shop just off Essex Street, a shopkeeper in velvet gives visitors advice about practicing magic.
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If you want to immigrate to Desiigner's dictatorship, you'll need to start practicing your Fortnite skills — it's the national pastime of Desiignertopia.
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On a cool summer night, it's where the uniquely American excess of the Coney Island boardwalk collides with a uniquely American pastime.
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What was once the province of dedicated survivalists and cautious Mormon families is now a national pastime spanning demographics, religions, and politics.
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If Issa Rae's Insecure character, Issa Dee, were to have a favorite phone pastime, it would probably be The Come Up Game.
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Childs's first piece, "Pastime" (153), consisted of the choreographer sitting, impassively, inside a bolt of stretchy fabric, and slowly unfurling one leg.
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While that may sound like a typical pastime for emerging artists, not everyone is secretly laying down tracks behind Annie Lennox's back.
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Rapping was a relatively new pastime (it still is), though striving for fame came naturally to a diligent student of social networks.
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What authorities like Chandler saw as poisonous to the hallowed national pastime, however, was delicious to fans and inseparable from Durocher's success.
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Even by that measure "The Good Cop" represents the kind of mild pastime that can readily be found elsewhere -- without a subscription.
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The pastime has caught on on YouTube and among some streamers on Twitch, the online streaming video game service owned by Amazon.
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That texture includes a pastime that's normal for Swedes but foreign to many Americans: foraging, and the constitutional right that protects it.
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The new Twitch office has two 6v6 PC gaming rooms, as competitive gaming is a popular pastime for many on the staff.
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Even in recent decades, as shown by Mr. Northam's yearbook and the USA Today review, the shameful pastime persists in American life.
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Mushroom hunting is a treasured Polish pastime, a peaceful way to spend time in the wilderness while collecting treats for the dinner table.
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It was titled "Casey at the Bat," and nearly 130 years after its publication, it remains the definitive poem about our national pastime.
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It's opening day for most Major League Baseball teams today, and you're ready to eat some Cracker Jacks and catch America's favorite pastime.
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And, of course, how can we forget this couple's ultimate favorite pastime, raising the heart rates of fans everywhere with false pregnancy alarms.
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Ketogenic dieting has become a favorite pastime of Silicon Valley techies who want to hack their bodies to improve energy levels and performance.
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Going to the movies with friends or your significant other can be a cherished pastime, especially when you're surrounded by an excited audience.
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He "relishes judging women on the basis of their looks," and humiliating them by calling them ugly is "almost recreational pastime" for him.
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The mother-daughter relationship is a much-examined cultural phenomenon; if slamming doors at home was your favorite teenage pastime, you're not alone.
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In this short documentary, we learn how kite fighting is more than just a simple pastime for the young people holding the strings.
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Meanwhile feuding has become a pastime of the feudal class, as Islamic inheritance laws requiring an equal split among male heirs fragment estates.
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Scenes of people playing soccer offer an appropriate homage to the country's national pastime and legendary players such as Neymar Jr and Pelé.
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The best way to see the islands of Hawaii is from above, which is why helicopter tours are a popular pastime for tourists.
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Despite its overblown reputation as Sting's favorite bedroom pastime, tantric sex is about more than marathon orgasms and sustained, seemingly pointless, eye contact.
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Finding the Ninas became a popular pastime for many people, including the readers of The New York Times, which regularly published Hirschfeld's work.
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Without having to worry that the catcher could be badly injured, pitchers could hurl their best throws, helping to revolutionize our national pastime.
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Here, where betting on a horse race (or anything at all) is a cherished pastime, you can wager on a horse to lose.
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"Serial" turned speculation about Mr. Syed's guilt and whether he had received a fair trial into something of a national pastime in 2014.
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"Kyle was also a huge movie buff and especially liked watching musicals, but his favorite pastime was playing on his PlayStation," it said.
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The game hub, much like PEOPLE's franchises, will zone in on celebrities and style – making it every pop culture fanatic's go-to pastime.
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What was a pastime for curious, smart nerds became big business for the underworld, and a lucrative tool in the arsenal of nations.
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Let's take a quick look back at the shutdown that kicked off the American government's apparent favorite pastime, and how we got there.
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It was a popular pastime in Marseille, where there were many alpine clubs, and her colleagues would often take day trips in groups.
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Though booing of politicians is not that unusual, it sure seems like Trump is making booing him at sporting events America's newest pastime.
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Mask-making has become something of a national pastime in a period where many people have found they have more time than ever.
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Is it a symptom of post-Diana Britain, where mourning has become as much a national pastime as tea and biscuits or Corrie?
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It's a longstanding New York pastime to lament this phenomenon to which it seems like all of our most beloved haunts fall victim.
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A temporary exhibition about baseball, "Making America's Pastime," shows how balls, bats, gloves and uniforms are made, and how they've changed over time.
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In South Korea, where mountain climbing is a national pastime, an estimated one in three people go hiking at least twice a month.
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Instead, she gets "an idiot," whose favorite pastime is throwing bottles at the wall and shouting "huzzah" at the top of his lungs.
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Besides making it possible to watch America's Pastime with Man's Best Friend, these games are great for prime dogspotting opportunities and adorable shenanigans.
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In her decades of writing about the national pastime, Ms. Smith had tried to steer clear of the spotlight trained on her subjects.
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"As one of the world's largest alpaca wool exporters, and a country where knitting is a national pastime, Peru was perfect," she said.
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The Kremlin dismissed talk of internal intrigues, with Dmitri S. Peskov, Mr. Putin's spokesman, calling such speculation the favorite pastime of political analysts.
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Frugal Traveler Finding the lowest airfare has become a favorite frugal pastime, and there are websites to help you nail down cheap fares.
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Yet fighting was their stock in trade, and recreational pastime, and both men odd jobbed as nightclub bouncers, debt collectors and mob enforcers.
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It was time to try out Jessica's favorite pastime... I went to Rudy's Bar on 44th and 9th, because it's mentioned in the show.
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Creating little group dance routines was an extremely popular pastime for the girls, while the boys liked to blast music while they played basketball.
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The Oscar winner was down in Malibu getting into his latest favorite pastime -- aside from dating models, of course ... good, old-fashioned beach volleyball!
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He was also an urban homesteader, years before both doomsday preppers and small-town food bloggers made canning and pickling into a fun pastime.
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Comedian Julie Klausner is best known for her role as Julie Kessler on the Hulu series Difficult People, whose favorite pastime is insulting celebrities.
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To help stop him from falling into a rut, Ji encouraged his father to reconnect with his pastime and post his work on Instagram.
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In particular, the RSPCA has provoked resentment for prosecuting hunts that go after foxes (a pastime which was outlawed in most forms in 2005).
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And the Westminster government, which does, is worried about squeezed living standards and is in no mood to raise taxes on the national pastime.
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My toddler's current favorite pastime is arranging magnetic alphabet letters on a chalkboard in sequential order — something encouraged by one of his favorite apps.
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In an interview with The Cut, Gates' wife Melinda revealed that she and her husband share a favorite pastime: Binge-watching PBS' "Victoria" together.
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Look at the KarJenner family, all those years ago, before the show premiered and keeping up with the Kardashians became a true national pastime.
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The addition is one of several tweaks currently being piloted in the independent league in an attempt to update some fundamentals of America's pastime.
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"Baseball in the United States is the national pastime, while in Europe, baseball and softball's numbers and competitiveness are steadily rising," he told Reuters.
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It's cool to see Brand bring some attention to the beloved pastime, and probably give the Travelling Man a boost in sales to boot.
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Consider this remake a sacrifice at the altar of Dirty Dancing, an ode to years past, when dancing the twist was a national pastime.
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"I was becoming obsessed with the fact that America's pastime was baseball, America's passion was the NFL, but America's game was basketball," he said.
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Private airboating inside the pristine Everglades National Park, a pastime that stretches back decades, will officially end with Mr. Price and others like him.
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Philanthropy is the most popular pastime among billionaires, Business Insider previously reported, but many of them also make time to maintain their personal collections.
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Bird-watching is a fairly recent pastime that Mr. Cuomo, 45, has taken to with his signature gusto, which is to say, nearly obsessively.
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Yet all those lonely and alienated Jewish writers were elsewhere, too—lost in books and newspapers, which were the true pastime of the café.
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Given lapta's history, some of the game's boosters, including Stalin, have claimed that America's national pastime might have its roots in the Russian heartland.
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Despite such innovations, baseball long ago surrendered the national pastime status that it held uncontested from the eras of Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle.
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WALKING These days my favorite pastime is to just go for a walk and if it's out in the wilds, then all the better.
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Always interested in technology, Ingram came from a working class family that didn't have enough money for him to indulge in his favorite pastime.
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Latin America may have had an appetite for a new sporting pastime, but it had no interest in an unfamiliar set of cultural values.
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Steven dove deep into the heart of Thailand's national pastime—to a quiet land beyond the Bangkok nightlife, world-class beaches, and Wi-Fi.
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A kind of dark joke, these handcrafted pieces reference the crafts' ancient roots as well as its current reputation as a waiting room pastime.
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Ricky is such a local lad that his favourite pastime is to play darts over a few pints in his local, The New Inn.
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The Cooperstown experience is itself an effective argument for baseball as the National Pastime—it's Baseball Disneyland, and I mean that as a compliment.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again—hating on telecoms is a treasured pastime in Canada, akin to a third national sport.
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The mainstream appeal of his films helped turn winter sports from a niche pursuit to a widely popular pastime and a multibillion-dollar industry.
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The pastime has also helped the family stay faithful to a promise announced by Ms. Mackall's husband, who grew up playing full-contact football.
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According to Dray, the critical turn from noble pleasure to blue-collar pastime came with the establishment of the myth of the frontier hunter.
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That experience is difficult enough when the coverage is local, and unimaginable when a major media production turns your story into a national pastime.
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Occupied Pleasures straddles passive and active meanings: to be occupied under Israel, and to occupy oneself, joyfully and defiantly, in pastime and simple pleasures.
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Maybe I felt that my mom would be angry if I gave up on a pastime she'd loved so deeply, just because she died.
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He has seen the sport grow from a bush-league pastime to a high-stakes competition, with purses worth tens of thousands of dollars.
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On an N train on Thursday, Ronald Dupree, a bouncer and car salesman who grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, recalled his childhood pastime fondly.
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One of Baranowsky's more recent projects, Cadence of Hyrule, combines some of these key VGM principles with a beloved pastime of VGM fans: remixes.
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Mahmoud Montasir, a Jerusalem teenager who has his own horse, said he had achieved his childhood dream of turning horse-riding into a pastime.
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Recreational boating isn't reserved for the elites and ultra-wealthy — it's an accessible pastime enjoyed by millions of Americans from all walks of life.
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Many people remarked that they learned from someone they loved, and this pastime of ours will not thrive if new solvers don't join us.
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In a corner of Doha's old city, a state-of-the-art facility offers scans, surgeries and a link to a centuries-old pastime.
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There were some other major leaguers that spoke out against this poorly named and misleading Save America's Pastime Act because it's a deceiving act.
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If you care about animals, don't succumb to temptation if traveling to one of those few countries that are still clinging to this sadistic pastime.
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For hobbies, under the old law, you were allowed to deduct hobby-related costs up to the amount of income you generate from your pastime.
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She had a true vision of what theater should be—hating the idea of theater that trivialized itself as a pastime for the middle classes.
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However, minor league teams have been lobbying for the Save America's Pastime Act as well, fearing that major league teams will actually pull the plug.
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Although cockfighting is banned in many countries on grounds of animal cruelty, it is a lucrative business in Thailand as well as a popular pastime.
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Here, Rieser shares his pictures of the glory and brutality of the game, as well as his thoughts on the influence of this American pastime.
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Rowing might seem like a pastime that's only reserved for preppy college students or Olympians, but it's actually a surprisingly accessible, low-impact cardio workout.
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Painting was his favorite pastime, and we used to go to the surrounding hills, where he painted the landscape, and we had fabulous picnic lunches.
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" Jaime Rubio, who frequents the target shooting range, told the outlet that shooting there was "good bonding time with my kids, good pastime, stress reliever.
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Finding NSFW references or inappropriate jokes in your old childhood favorite TV shows and books has become something of an internet pastime in recent years.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads After the singularity, how will we explain the internet pastime of going down a Wikihole to our cyborg children?
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Sofia was an honor student at school, she was friendly and showed that surfing could be an important competitive sport and not just a pastime.
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For Blake Lively, an A-list celebrity who has legitimate reasons for not using a stylist (and thus, dressing herself), style is but a pastime.
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He says the bill, which he coauthored with LA-area assembly member Ian Calderon, is more than just a symbolic gesture toward his favorite pastime.
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But it begins in India, where weddings rival cricket as the nation's favourite pastime, and where old marriage practices are being discarded at alarming speed.
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While Cuban baseball players are world famous for their talent, Obama's visit comes as Cuba's favorite pastime struggles to survive a crippling spree of defections.
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He's a 30-year-old former financier who saw how much Canadians liked the sport, or game, or pastime, or whatever axe-throwing might be.
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They acknowledge they were looking for a photo op to prove that despite being fancy New Yorkers, they share a pastime beloved by many Iowans.
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Maslow wasn't the first to try to make sense of basic needs; the act itself is something of a human pastime that dates back centuries.
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But the most unexpectedly pleasant place to partake in this pastime is Facebook Live, far from the overproduced glitz and slick editing of YouTube vloggers.
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This odd pastime — hiding words and phrases in plain sight and then asking people to uncover them like buried treasure — is such a human thing.
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Before long, merchants, engineers, travel agents, and seamen took the new pastime abroad, founding the first soccer clubs in Germany, Spain, France, Argentina, and Russia.
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Checking in to protests has been a favorite pastime of online observers who can't be where the protest is but want to spread the word.
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Merl wrote in the same voice in which he spoke, and you can feel his love for this crazy pastime of ours in every page.
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Twenty-nine of the at least 72 dead were children, all of them, presumably, engaging in the child's pastime of facing fear and surviving it.
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Since now is the time to put unwinding at the top of your mind, we're giving you full permission to indulge in our favorite pastime.
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There's clearly something poignant in all of this, how a pastime Thomson enjoyed with her late husband has now become a tribute to his memory.
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Sports _____ Eager to embrace the Canadian way of life, a growing number of newcomers are hazarding a go at their adopted nation's quintessential winter pastime.
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Floating down Oxford's canals and rivers is both a time-honored pastime and an excellent way to explore the city, especially in the warmer months.
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It happens to be the case that video games are a more stigmatized pastime than playing sports, but the basic mechanism is exactly the same.
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Is there something you love — a movie, a sport, a food, a recreational pastime — that many others either don't "get" or simply don't care about?
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My mother-in-law was complaining about her new neighbors, an all-too-common pastime for any resident of a gated community with an HOA.
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Another shared pastime is working in cahoots to pester Auriemma ("I feel like the only time we're not wrong is always against him," Taurasi said).
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Reading poems is normally a solitary pastime, and so is a lot of music listening, except at concerts, where the emotions aren't really your own.
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The Savannah St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee announced last week it wants the pastime to come to a halt, something it's been attempting for years.
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Poetry is a national pastime, but not a particularly "specialist activity," said Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, a professor of Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland.
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According to the numbers and the seemingly unstoppable cultural momentum, eSports will continue to grow as an industry -- and a pastime -- for the foreseeable future.
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Amidst the long conservative pastime of anti-urbanism, the numerous inequalities that permeate the South's economy and culture, both rural and urban, have gone unaddressed.
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For a very long time, crosswords were thought to be the pastime of the older generations, and not at all a cool thing to do.
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Soccer, once a weekend pastime, had transformed into a devotion that was as closely tied to his rehabilitation as the arm bike down the hall.
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In addition to the great barbecue, beer and music in the city, I took the opportunity to indulge in a pastime I rarely enjoy: shopping.
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Bolton does not golf, a favorite pastime of the President's and where people like Kentucky senator Rand Paul -- Bolton's ideological foe -- can get Trump's ear.
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CreditCreditSusan Wright for The New York Times A paradise for skiers, the Italian Alps of South Tyrol offer a more placid pastime that's surging anew.
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Obviously, her chief pastime is evaluating the food ("I can't believe they used American cucumbers for this dish; the skin is way too thick—inedible").
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It's very interesting that the first progress in civil rights after the Civil War takes place on the diamonds of our so-called national pastime.
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This isn't to oversell "Gods of Egypt" or to argue that it's somehow superior to "The Revenant," each a favorite pastime of self-regarding critic-contrarians.
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In their testy encounter with the officer, Ron and Erik are told about the dangers of their pastime, and how best to react in an emergency.
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This pastime has evolved to a near-holy tradition, parodied on Saturday Night Live, analyzed in academic papers, and reaffirmed by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.
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"Food-label reading became a national pastime, and with it came a lot of anxiety about choosing the healthiest foods and avoiding 'processed' ones," Harrison says.
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I personally think even as a pastime it's very enjoyable, when you can be part of a community that's actually trying to sort fact from fiction.
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"They were saying yes, this is an adolescent pastime, but that doesn't mean we can't imbue it with a sophisticated worldview," he says of its creators.
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It instead took some severe bites from a snake -- two in the past year -- for Ludwin to begin understanding just how reckless his pastime could be.
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Smoking stands out in medical history as a pastime which is so unambiguously bad for you that the signal cuts through almost any amount of noise.
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Although America may not have been an outright underdog at its own "national pastime", it most certainly had a well-deserved reputation as a massive underachiever.
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But the world as we know it is about to change — because the fashion and beauty icon has decided to step away from her favorite pastime.
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While other countries go crazy for soccer — and baseball is technically "America's Pastime" — there's no debating the fact that football is this country's sport of choice.
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The burgeoning pastime became dominated by a standard look that would eventually coalesce into "the uniform," a stock blank tee paired with baggy khakis or jeans.
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Now, as the game continuously reaches new heights of popularity, Epic's next mission is to change Fortnite from a compulsive pastime into a competitive e-sport.
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Imagining the UK without his influence feels almost impossible: there would be no "Rock DJ," no shit jokes about Gary Barlow being crap (a national pastime).
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Similar to charcoal masks, our Sunday night self-care pastime, using activated charcoal toothpaste is like using a vacuum to draw out impurities on your teeth.
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While we're all casual numismatists on some level, collecting and eventually reselling rare coins is not only a popular pastime but also a serious investment tactic.
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As China's economy boomed and shopping became a national pastime, her studio swelled to a current staff of 300 embroiderers and 200 designers, patternmakers and sewers.
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Swiss cheese, French wine and German sausages can be bought in local stores and pétanque, a lawn game involving hollow steel balls, is a popular pastime.
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It could be easy to write off the Gregg T meme as a form of New Yorkers' favorite pastime of complaining about everyday New York life.
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I'm talking, of course, about Christmas tree shopping—the widely practiced pastime of publicly scrutinizing spruces, pines, and firs in search of the ideal yuletide centerpiece.
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Recently, Rogen has taken to making ceramic ashtrays — a perfect companion for his other well-known pastime, smoking pot — and sharing his newfound hobby on Instagram.
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In fact, private gunsmithing is a time-honored tradition that predates the mass-manufacture of firearms and still stands as a favorite pastime of gun enthusiasts.
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It is an undeniably strange pastime, but somehow mini-golf has the power to bring a lot of diverse people together into a relatively neutral arena.
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While we're all casual numismatists on some level, collecting and eventually reselling rare coins is not only a popular pastime but also a serious investment tactic.
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"With apologies to the start of the baseball season, E-sports is now as popular among the U.S. male millennials as American's favorite pastime," Huang said.
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Ironically, that genre would end up replacing the RTS in a lot of ways, and practically relegate the genre that spawned it to a niche pastime.
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And members of the Joint Task Force could embrace Pokemon Go, a pastime deemed "normal" by American pop culture, even though their jobs were anything but.
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" Photography is a favorite pastime of his, and he was thrilled when the magazine GQ Russia recently recommended his Instagram account as "enticing and not banal.
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The world's best female duckpin bowler is Amy Bisson Sykes, a slight woman of 37 who dominates a black-and-white pastime in a Technicolor world.
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Here, men of a certain age, some wearing classic Cuban white guayabera shirts and Panama hats, play spirited games of dominoes, a national pastime in Cuba.
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Counterfactual "what if" thinking may be an enjoyable pastime for historians—"What if Hitler had been assassinated?" being one favourite—but is not common among underwriters.
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The gathering of artists featured art installations and performances, tarot card readings, lectures on fermentation and outings organized around the traditional Polish pastime of mushroom hunting.
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Since the June 2016 referendum in favor of ending the UK's membership of the European Union, analyzing Brexit's causes has become something of a public pastime.
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Peeping into the bedrooms of the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, and mocking their habits — real or imaginary — has long been something of an Israeli national pastime.
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The history behind a $5 billion eSports industry There are three key ingredients for a game or pastime to become a sport: playing, competing and viewing.
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And yet, in both of these communities, there are small pockets of people, who have embraced games as a pastime, as a way to de-stress.
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Also a good pastime on the train/car-rides is decorating them with our own little messages, so each one is kind of a limited-edition.
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While it started as a funny pastime to call out Trump for his confusing, inconsistent, and false comments, it developed into something a bit more serious.
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Since the late 1940s, with greater or lesser success, Germans have made a national pastime of owning up to individual and collective crimes associated with Nazism.
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What in the World In Jerusalem, where arguments about history are a municipal pastime, a debate has been revived about the origins of a local delicacy.
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They offer a taste of a growing global threat: Across the world, thanks in part to rising affluence, travel is becoming a more widely shared pastime.
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One hundred years ago, the world was in the throes of World War I. The war weighed heavily on America, even on its favorite pastime: baseball.
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Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — Watching this pastime of ours — both solving and constructing — pass into the hands of younger generations is always an uplifting experience for me.
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A viewing platform on the American side of the border allows spectators to watch ships going through the locks, a pastime more popular in warmer months.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Though the Charleston Rifle Club was founded in 1855 to promote good marksmanship, it is better known today for a more prosaic pastime, bowling.
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Contributing Writer Recreational fishing is a pastime in which people have come to expect the fish they want in the places they happen to want them.
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When I'm anxious, the focus needed for my favorite pastime, reading, eludes me, but more physical enterprises like cleaning a closet or a car sometimes work.
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He built an empire based on caravaning — that's what Australians call the popular pastime — and then invested in cycling, thoroughbreds, wine, soccer, basketball, technology and art.
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Ever since hearing tales of her adventures and fossil finds on the beach as a child, though, I've been keen to try out the local pastime.
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But the time spent on this subject is overshadowed by his other favorite long-running pastime, expressing sympathy for rich and powerful men enmeshed in scandal.
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A favorite pastime is contriving Laws of Annoyance, like making sure that when a piece of toast falls, it always lands with the jelly side down.
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Pictured is a polaroid of the wonderful statue in Kensington Gardens where I have spent many hours daydreaming, a pastime that is never lost, never obsolete.
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The three-day event is usually a chance for the sport to forget about troublesome issues and celebrate the national pastime and, particularly, its best players.
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Whether we want to continue the national pastime of elevating the same sliver of teenage girls for the sport of mocking them is perhaps worth considering.
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Depending on the availability, legality, and quality of substances where you live, watching stoner movies while stoned may or may not already be a regular pastime.
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But gambling has been an American pastime since before the foundation of the republic, as generations have bet on the odds of changing their lives through fortune.
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While dumpster diving might look like a niche pastime, the community of divers are actually bringing up a much larger conversation about ethical consumption and corporate responsibility.
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Sheen's Aziraphale and Tennant's Crowley have been through a lot together, stationed as they are on Earth, where high-class lunches seem to be their favorite pastime.
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I develop recipes as a pastime, and this one may go in the arsenal — I love when I can make a full meal out of pantry items.
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But it seems amidst even the craziest of media storms and damage control, nothing could tear Kylie Jenner away from her most favorite pastime, taking mirror selfies.
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Photo: Liam McCabe Photo: Liam McCabe Robot Vacuum: iRobot Roomba 960 If cleaning is neither your forte or preferred pastime, a robot vacuum will come in handy.
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On hospice care at home since October, she was still able to cook her husband an occasional dinner and work on her favorite pastime, arts and crafts.
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Everyone from amateurs to medical professionals alike have taken interest, and honestly, the fan base for this particular pastime sport isn't showing any signs of stopping soon.
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Expressions of dismay at Trump's behavior towards Mexico have almost become a national pastime, and talk of boycotts against U.S. companies is gathering steam on social media.
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Searching for sexual hints (like, say, boners) on the show is an enjoyable pastime because the producers, editors, and crew try their darned best to obscure them.
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She began to view trolling as a pastime for the privileged—people who can afford to joke about rape without thinking about the consequences, emotional or otherwise.
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Backgammon is one of the oldest games in history and it was a common pastime in the area, but the dice were also used in settling disputes.
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Our love affair with GoldenEye 007 hasn't cooled much in 20 years, and modding it or modding other games to look like it remains a popular pastime.
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He has the resources, and his livelihood is no longer tied to fighting: it's more pastime than salvation, so he can afford to be dispassionate and demanding.
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It is widely known as America's pastime, has been called a national religion by some, and until relativity recently was unchallenged as the country's most popular sport.
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He has also become something of a celebrity in Indonesia, with local media running stories on everything from his favorite pastime (debating, reportedly) to his love life.
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They sweep their hair up and away and they themselves are swept up in some fabulous pastime or new creative endeavor that will be, inevitably, well-received.
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"Betting increasingly drives sports fans — and even casual observers — to invest in the tournament, offering further evidence that sports betting is the new national pastime," he added.
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For all we know about that first broadcast of the national pastime and for all we can imagine about it, we know less about who heard it.
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Matthew had not only picked up his older brother's pastime in secret, but was gaining inspiration from the crew he started—completely unaware of his brother's involvement.
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Football is America's favorite sport, gambling on football is America's favorite pastime, and both football and gambling only get better when augmented by friends, beer, and nachos.
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The culture still tends to think of American racism as a disease of the Confederacy rather than as a national pastime with particular regional traditions, like barbecue.
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The Ski Inn, a cheery and sun-shot establishment named for the water-skiing that was a long-ago Salton Sea pastime, was also packed that day.
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It began with the 1926 Rose Bowl, which was the culmination of decades of failed Southern attempts to compete in the quintessentially Northern elite pastime of football.
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Flaunting wealth is an activity as old as civilization itself; from lavish parties to elaborate jewelry, throwing away money is a beloved international pastime for the privileged.
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Reading as a pastime has been in significant decline, in part because of the proliferation of screens and options for what to watch and do on them.
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As a budding young journalist in New York, he was known to take potshots at the etiquette and artifice of what he saw as an aristocratic pastime.
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In the meantime, speculating about the canal has become a national pastime, though polls show that Nicaraguans grow less inclined to believe that it will be built.
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If Johnson can show that the primary purpose of some pastime is not, strictly speaking, money, war or sex, he labels it play and closes his case.
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"Cooking at home has become more of a pastime to those who are dedicated enough," Khaled Samirah, research analyst at Euromonitor International, said in a research report.
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In the northeast US, where HKD is headquartered, skiing is a popular pastime—but one potentially hampered by dwindling snow in the early part of the season.
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The more I read, the more convinced I became that Foos's stilted metaphysics were his way of attempting to elevate his disturbing pastime into something of value.
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The point is not to pick on the author, an expert on these matters, or on Duke, though that is a pastime enjoyed by a great many.
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Goldman Sachs is replacing Lloyd Blankfein as CEO, the company announced Tuesday, meaning the 63-year-old can finally take full advantage of a favorite pastime: Twitter.
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The ritual is, after all, older than the major leagues, a relic of the 19th century, when baseball still vied with cricket as America's favorite sporting pastime.
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Do you want to lose weight because you value getting in shape to return to a favorite pastime of hiking, or because of societal expectations and pressures?
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Amaranth Borsuk's The Book traces how the nature of reading changed from an activity practiced by a small number of scholars to a pastime of the masses.
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In Pakistan, where the British game of Cricket remains the country's favorite pastime, MMA is a peripheral sport for men, and female participation is virtually non-existent.
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The young politician from Alberta bought a handgun, joined a sports-shooting club and became Canada's most prominent proponent of gun ownership—as a responsible pastime, she says.
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Whether it's a tribute to another loved one, a childhood pastime, or simply designs that remind you of each other, a sibling tattoo is always a good idea.
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That is what we'd like to imagine is 'Ye's expression as he lets loose with a youthful pastime just over a week after being released from the hospital.
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Ahead of Trump's White House arrival, dreaming up these imaginary conversations between Joe Biden and Barack Obama was a soothing pastime during a time of fear and uncertainty.
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K.V.N. competitions first appeared on Soviet television in the nineteen-sixties and soon became a national pastime, held in universities and performance venues all over the Soviet Union.
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Since "My Brilliant Friend", the first of her four "Neapolitan novels", was published to international acclaim in 2011, speculation about Ms Ferrante's identity has become a literary pastime.
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As long as UFC was excluded from Madison Square Garden (MSG), it was never able to shake its image fully as a shady and not-quite-kosher pastime.
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Many young Americans were raised on football, soccer, or basketball, noble sports no doubt, but somewhere along the line they found themselves incapable of sitting through America's pastime.
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Pennsylvania is home both to rural communities where hunting is a popular pastime and big cities including Philadelphia and Pittsburgh where crime and gun violence are major concerns.
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That's when he would join his friends to smoke bhang, a form of cannabis - a common pastime among young slum-dwellers who take the drug in secret dens.
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It's not entirely clear how radical AMLO would prove to be in office – debating the point is a favorite pastime in Mexican cafés and corporate boardrooms these days.
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Self-made millionaire Steve Siebold spent 26 years studying some of the world's wealthiest people and found that the one pastime they all had in common was reading.
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If residents of the American capital have a reputation across the nation for talking politics, locals know that Washingtonians' favourite pastime is, in fact, griping about its subway.
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Jaime had been horse-riding with his brother-in-law and two others in the mountains behind his brother-in-law's home outside Phoenix, a frequent weekend pastime.
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As Garfield memes continue to proliferate online, my quick-draw misshapen Garfs are no longer an obscure pastime laden with personal symbolism, but a—dare I say cool?
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What's equal parts overhyped but still anticipated, as synonymous with Thanksgiving as turkey, and is a better holiday pastime than cat naps on your parents' living room couch?
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This makes sense, given that they are all designed to express the same brand values, not to mention the fact that shopping is not a gender-specific pastime.
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Anyone who grew up in the 90s or earlier is probably aware of the childhood pastime of throwing stink bombs at friends or unsuspecting passerby as a prank.
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The leagues take a communal pastime beloved for its traditions of friendly competition and drinking and add campy humor and flamboyantly themed tournaments, or "bonspiels" in curling lingo.
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Jaime had been horse-riding with Alejandro Torres -- his brother-in-law -- and two others in the mountains behind Alejandro's home outside Phoenix, Arizona, a frequent weekend pastime.
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Supporters of the amendments say they're a preemptive measure designed to protect a national pastime in the face of increasing pressure from animal welfare and anti-hunting groups.
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It's nice to know that our Wordplay puzzlehead family is growing, and by doing so, that we can offer you more to read about this pastime of ours.
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But as one of the most impactful American figures of the 20th century, it was inevitable that his story would dovetail with what was then the national pastime.
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But there are broad swaths of New York — indeed, most of the state — where hunting is a favorite pastime and gun enthusiasts are proud members of the community.
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Going to Claridge's in London to see the hotel's Christmas tree is a popular pastime for locals, partially because the tree always has a famous designer behind it.
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" On my last day in Autun, I visited a few local booksellers, curious whether any of them had heard of James Salter or "A Sport and a Pastime.
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Donald Trump and his buddy, Vladimir Putin, are leaving their mark on America's pastime, literally ... because the world leaders autographed a baseball and it's going up for sale!!!
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Since taking up the pastime, she has traveled internationally to places like Cozumel, Mexico, to fish, and she uses the hobby to explore hidden parts of the city.
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During those tumultuous years as a kid in Honolulu, Carrere's favorite pastime had been singing with her friend Daniel Ho, who attended the all-boys Catholic school nearby.
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My favorite spot was the screened-in porch with two unfussy brown wicker chairs and a small table, where I indulged my favorite pastime: gazing at the ocean.
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However, despite the elevated status of women in Meghalaya, and attempts to clean up teer's reputation as a pastime predominantly reserved for men, the game remains stubbornly male.
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And while we will always give a darn about RHETT Butler, it's always nice to find a modern clue to welcome younger solvers to this pastime of ours.
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In Mr. Bradbury's day, it was the sudden rise of TV as America's pastime; today it's the ubiquitous screens that have us checking Twitter during our morning ablutions.
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According to one Times columnist, Jay Caspian Kang, the pastime is "deceitful above all things," making one believe it can be mastered with the mind, not the body.
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This fever — described by photographer Tony Bridge as "a form of appropriation ... a photo as consumerist pastime" — contributes to overtourism and results in itineraries full of fleeting moments.
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LONDON — For two decades, cricket has been familiar with the specter of match-fixing, which brought scandals and suspensions to a sport that considered itself a gentlemen's pastime.
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It is even tempting to view this development, to paraphrase an Indian cricket writer, as a case of pedigree dogs being an American pastime accidentally invented in Britain.
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Gardening is a summer pastime and hobby for many — it can be quite relaxing (and eco-friendly!), and who wouldn't love having their own supply of fresh produce?
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Broadcasting the weird and obscure parts of your character has not historically been a favorite pastime of teenagers, but the internet has rendered that version of adolescence obsolete.
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A new common pastime when friends are over is to talk over each other to tell Alexa or Google to play whatever videos or songs come to mind.
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All the Rules Will Change, a survey of Robert Irwin's work currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum, takes as its theme the national pastime of rule flouting.
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A favorite pastime of astronomers is to debate the origin of Earth's Moon, but despite decades of research, they don't seem to be any closer to reaching a consensus.
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The couple's pastime first began to draw them attention about 30 years ago and has garnered them even more notice lately, as they've gotten closer to completing their goal.
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Jakartans are accustomed to chaos; they seem to enjoy jostling and being jostled as a friendly communal pastime, so the art fair was a whopping success with the public.
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With shows such as "IT Conversations" (which ran from June 2003 until December 2012), podcasts began life as a favourite pastime for software developers and nerdy tech-obsessed men.
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But when it comes to Cruz or A-Rod or Clinton, is it entirely about the government shutdown or the purity of America's Pastime or humanitarian intervention's dark side?
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Without this account, I wouldn't have known that Zach Braff's favorite pastime is to heckle other celebrities, or that the sickest burns in the comments are often between partners.
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However, while it's a favorite pastime of many to speculate about their relationship, Markle has also told the magazine that they're purposefully private when it comes to their romance.
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Despite the "No Outside Food or Beverages" signs on display outside of nearly every movie theater in America, sneaking snacks into the theater has become an unspoken American pastime.
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Kelly Ripa has a favorite pastime (and no, it isn't SoulCycle or chatting up celebrities on her show): it's hitting back at people who troll her on the Internet.
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The sky has fascinated humans for generations — we're pretty sure it was a major pastime of people long ago to stare up at the stars and think about life.
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Peggy and Jim Young, who were both in their 50s — and who have no relation to Pamela — had spent the night before watching the Weather Channel, a favorite pastime.
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Sailing is a pastime that gets in the blood; the competition fuels technological advances, which fuels even more exciting competition, and so on, in a perpetual cycle of adrenaline.
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Comparisons up and down this vast ladder have been a popular scientific pastime, but all we have learned from them is how to measure other species by our standards.
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Boys and girls view it as a harmless pastime, but for parents the repetitive noise of the children flipping (gurgle), landing (thud) and grabbing (crunch) the bottles is torture.
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Wuthering Heights, East of Eden, To Kill a Mockingbird: getting lost in the twists and turns of a great novel is a pastime enjoyed by millions the world over.
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The lineup features "Pastime" (1963), "Radial Courses" (1976), "Interior Drama" (1977), "Concerto" (003), a section from "Lollapalooza" (2010), "Canto Ostinato" (2015) and the newly commissioned "Into View" (1:58).
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Last week, Yahoo added a new site dedicated to e-sports, the popular pastime in which people gather online to watch top video game players compete against each other.
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In the past few years, long-distance running has gone from a trademark of masochists and compulsive dieters to a national pastime for people in their 20s and 30s.
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"Historians of technology have usually characterized technological enthusiasm as a white male pastime," Steve Waksman observes, in Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience.
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In an ironic twist, the group ultimately failed to force the National League to change its labor practices, and instead helped the NL consolidate its power over America's pastime.
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The show initially resembles an array of extra-large game boards, and the checkered center of one quilt was indeed intended for playing chess, another pastime of enlisted men.
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"Every woman should look upon herself as, in certain measure, an advocate, so to speak, of the pastime among the members of her own sex," she wrote of cycling.
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One pastime the sisters enthusiastically share is reveling in their dislike of their stepmother, who is only ever called "godmother" and is played with delicious venom by Olivia Colman.
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They met online about five years ago, when Mr. Kivlen was a junior in high school who had hurt his arm playing baseball and was seeking a new pastime.
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She averts her eyes from elderly women performing boisterous dances on public squares — a popular pastime here — because they prompt her memories of struggle sessions staged by Red Guards.
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But after a gig left him with a ruptured eardrum, he discovered the music industry was missing a beat and his pastime quickly turned into a full-time career.
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With a built-in Euro top, reinforced quantum edges for support, and two inches of Energex™ foam to relieve pressure points, bedtime will become your new favorite pastime.
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But most of its members would not dream of taking out their boards on Japan's streets, where the sport has long been seen as a pastime of unruly children.
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Roller skating was an inherently communal pastime, and screen-free, and it was hard not to think of Skate World as a spoke in a wheel of the neighborhood.
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"Automobile racing plays an important role in our state, both as a significant part of our local economy and also as a pastime for many North Carolinians," McHenry said.
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The pastime harks back to the days when Newfoundlanders supplemented meager winter diets with fresh meat on the wing, eating everything from clownish puffins to the great northern gannet.
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The Japanese do not go around tooting their own horn; when foreigners mention the island nation it is usually to rave about a great holiday or a curious pastime.
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The Dominican Republic is a special place: a lush, green country filled with lively people, where baseball is a national pastime and "home base" for many of my teammates.
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Instead she can press an elbow against one of the two four-inch buttons on the adaptive controller, which she tested for Microsoft and which has resurrected a pastime.
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While they focus specifically on film projection, the photographs might as well be a swan song for the whole pastime of movie-going, increasingly usurped by Netflix and chill.
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Whichever side of the political spectrum you fell on, tracing the ins and outs of the Trump administration and its many supporting players turned into a weird national pastime.
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After ingesting the Trump agenda and spitting out its market implications, investors and traders can get back to their usual pastime: trying to work out what central bankers are plotting.
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Lucha Libre is a traditional pastime in Mexico City -- a place where crowds come to see good fight evil and where they can get just about anything off their chests.
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Reading between the lines of a trailer is a favorite pastime on the internet; some people just love trying to figure out the twists and turns of an upcoming movie.
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But as sexting's gone from pervy pastime to everyday occurrence—the kind of thing you do while eating baby carrots and wearing sweatpants—the nature of the conversation has changed.
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"A portrait can force the viewer to stop and stare—which is anyway a national pastime—and evoke their curiosity about the life and condition of the subject," he says.
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Amazon Black Friday 179.993 gaming deals Gaming can be an expensive pastime when you factor in the console, games, and accessories you need to purchase before you can get started.
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Members of the Bush White House proved they had no compunctions about outing undercover CIA officers to settle scores, which also happens to be a favorite pastime of Mr. Trump.
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Just as the hard work of shepherds was converted to play in Renaissance pastoral art and literature, Essenhigh converts the early struggle for survival into a pastime in her future.
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The idea that a man would politely inquire about the political party of a group of men practicing "America's pastime" and then open fire based on the answer, staggers me.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Coloring books, once seen only as a pastime for children, have become a growing craze for American adults looking to unwind or test their creativity with coloring pencils.
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More from Tonic: While dunking on the chaos that is the MTA is a popular pastime for New Yorkers, problems in the subway carry a particular sting for disabled people.
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"The filing of appeal after appeal against projects has become a French pastime," said Gwenaelle Huet, renewables energy director at the French company, the biggest wind power producer in France.
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The attacks generated headlines worldwide and prompted scientists to re-examine their understanding of sharks, stirring fear in an age in which wading at the beach was the ultimate pastime.
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He likened it to the fate of Dungeons & Dragons, the paradigmatic teenage geek pastime, which Phillips and Greenwald dragged up from the basement and into their parade of paranormal menace.
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They transformed themselves from a soup company with a bunch of disparate products in the supermarket to a snack food company in a world where snacking's become an international pastime.
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He returned Wednesday from a trip abroad for falconry — a popular pastime among Persian Gulf royals — and he was arrested on Friday, according to the person close to the family.
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But for millions of kids and adults who enjoy playing sports for fun, they're also facing the likelihood that a favorite pastime won't be an option for the foreseeable future.
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As a business reporter, guessing the profit margins under the tree is a pastime of sorts, because there has to be more to the holidays than watching the Hallmark Channel.
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"America's national pastime should not enable the Cuban regime's support for Maduro in Venezuela," tweeted John Bolton, the national security adviser, on the day before the baseball deal was canceled.
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She and Chi Chi have a teasing rapport, and make videos of themselves as Nigerian aunties who critique rap lyrics, a pastime that often makes its way into the office.
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As a child, McNanney's favorite pastime was rearranging his parents' china collection inside their rambling antique-filled house on the hippieish, pine-forested Whidbey Island, 30 miles north of Seattle.
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The girls have been accompanying their parents on adventurous outdoor activities since they were even younger than they are now, including a favorite family pastime: trips to the sand dunes.
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Cruciverbalists in the making can find a published constructor who will mentor you there, and it is way better than trying to figure out this complex pastime on your own.
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Reading is about more than enjoying a good story (although that's certainly a plus) — extensive studies of wealthy people show that it's the one pastime they all have in common.
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So I'm here to tell you what I've learned: Political campaigns are often a pastime for the wealthy, meaning they're off-limits for working-class people with backgrounds like mine.
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Baseball can be an exciting game, and there's nothing wrong with the national pastime that some extra balls in the gap, stolen bases, and movement on the bases can't fix.
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Where it stands out is for families, as well as for beginners or those who approach their skiing more as a casual pastime than as a matter of athletic excellence.
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Slap-boxing was also a pastime of young men in the villages, and indeed there would be matches in ritual displays to lead up to the more popular art of engolo.
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For young viewers, the kind CBS wants to entice with a Sunday night game show, video games are as much a spectator sport as they are a hobby, lifestyle, and pastime.
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Cheri Bustos (D-IL) recently introduced a bill in Congress, the dubiously dubbed Save America's Pastime Act, that would amend federal law to specifically exclude minor leaguers from FLSA overtime protections.
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"It is an honor to participate in the MLB London Series and we are happy to support Major League Baseball's effort to promote America's pastime on an international stage," Ricketts said.
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Although there have been rerun marathons of "America's Next Top Model" on The CW for a while, it wasn't until Netflix flipped the script that "binge-watching" became a national pastime.
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It turns out this is somewhat of a pastime for Erica, who's trying to save enough money to pay off her father's bail while he awaits trial for robbing a casino.
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"They've put us backwards," said Patty Hodge, a bartender in this small town, who said the stream of patrons through the Central Pastime Tavern had expressed overwhelming disapproval of the protesters.
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Like many other leaders of the time, he was an autocrat, instituting one-party rule on the ground that democracy was "an over-sophisticated pastime which we in Africa cannot afford".
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Although, we now live in a much bleaker, meaner time than when Jersey Shore premiered within the first year of Barack Obama's administration and Twitter trolling wasn't even a pastime yet.
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It's a place to post photos of your dog, brunch, and envy-inducing vacation — but it's also a place for storytelling, activism, self-expression, and, of course, our favorite pastime: shopping.
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As the toll of scandals and debaucheries climbed while reading, I began to feel that this was the implicit position of the book—that dance was an ultimately empty, dilatory pastime.
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Audiences responded, rebooting American filmgoing as a serious pastime, but whether due to age or lack of cultural awareness, the studio heads at the time simply didn't understand what was happening.
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Ramsay brings out Rickon Stark, frees him, and has him run back to Jon while Ramsay shoots arrows at him, as a callback to his and his late boo's favorite pastime.
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Sports remain a central national pastime but, as all fans know, these athletes wouldn't enjoy their amazing results without hard work, strategy, and the latest advances in a number of fields.
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The most deeply felt passages in "The Last Supper" are reserved for the artists of the Renaissance; the most unforgiving, for any group, pastime, or individual that Cusk perceives as philistine.
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We still use broadcasting to come together and create face-to-face communities at the same time as we use the national pastime to see ourselves in broader terms as Americans.
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In the 1930s, when the sport was still a fledgling pastime on the West Coast, American surfers looking for new breaks and tourist-free beaches headed south, to Baja California, Mexico.
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For the second time that morning, she had foiled a round of Slap the Bag, the popular pastime of chugging cheap wine out of a plastic bladder liberated from its box.
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After a second transplant — from his brother's partner, by pure coincidence a match for his blood type — Nelson set out to turn the pastime that had saved him into something more.
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Exercising itself is a struggle: Running or hiking — a favorite pastime for my peers — clearly isn't possible, and sometimes when I try to go without the mobility scooter, a fall ensues.
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Add that to a perennial pastime of hating on that nebulous group called millennials and we have the makings of what, on the surface, can be read as a generational feud.
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While some Americans have prepared for next week's election by obsessively following the news or canvassing neighborhoods, a small minority has poured that energy into a more quirkily patriotic pastime: crafting!
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The cinema is a sacred place in France, and films (even those that might be considered obscure in the United States) are a worthy pastime — and not just for cosmopolitan elites.
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For decades, horse racing was mostly a pastime for the moneyed elite, and the best horses were bred and often owned by such old families as the Phipps and the Hancocks.
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The owners will still be rich and the players well remunerated, and some of the innocence and joy that have leaked out of the national pastime for decades could be restored.
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After years of focusing on big-budget fantasy movies, Hollywood may also have inadvertently trained people to think of moviegoing as less of a pastime and more as a special event.
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There are many excellent books about our national pastime, but a couple that come to mind are "The Boys of Summer," by Roger Kahn, and "Summer of '49," by David Halberstam.
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Saturday Night Live kicked off its 45th season with nods to the 2020 Democratic candidates and a fall favorite pastime, but notable cast member Pete Davidson was missing from the show.
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So when I went with my friend Jared to Patterson Bowling Center, east of downtown Baltimore, to try out duckpin bowling, an idiosyncratic local pastime, I thought my fortunes might change.
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For Mr. Trump, who ridiculed Mr. Obama for playing too much golf when he was in office, the sport is more than a pastime; it is potentially good for his business.
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Just cruising down Sunset Boulevard in a car or walking on foot is also a pastime since it's known for countless billboards and entire building walls advertising movies, TV and music.
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By stepping onto a major league diamond as a Brooklyn Dodger 72 years ago, he allowed a sport that thought of itself as the national pastime to finally be just that.
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The irony to the whole situation is that socialist Cuba, which goes to great lengths to differentiate itself from the U.S.'s "imperialist" ways, loves America's favorite pastime more than anything.
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Barstools are packed at the Central Pastime Tavern, with journalists and armed antigovernment protesters elbow to elbow, tucking down I.P.A.s and perhaps — for braver souls — the bull testicles on the bar menu.
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Take, for instance, "The Road to The Temple of Honour and Fame, An Instructive and Entertaining Game" (1811), or "Science in Sport or the Pleasures of Astronomy, A New Instructive Pastime" (1804).
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The real hero of the 5 hour, 48 minute game was a young Pirates fan who reminded weary baseball fans everywhere that America's favorite pastime is far more than just a game.
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There are 78 fewer points of citation on Wikipedia's page about the Bible than there are on its page about Pokémon Go. Baseball, America's previous pastime, has 188 citations at the moment.
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According to Branson, Obama studied the pastime for two days and flew a kite from the beach, "as if going back to being a child again," before heading out into the waves.
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It took years of advocating and heartache for Jackie Robinson to break into "America's pastime," baseball, and even longer lobbying for Art Shell to become the NFL's first African-American head coach.
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Complaining about airlines on Twitter is a universal pastime for disgruntled travelers, and yet somehow British Airways has managed to turn the activity into a data privacy debacle of its own doing.
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For the answer, we went right to Bob's son, Rohan Marley, and asked if Nico will be able to pass on the family's favorite pastime ... since weed is outlawed in the NFL.
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But sailing isn't exactly a cheap pastime, and using the same fiberglass battens in a shower curtain would dramatically increase the price of a household item that can cost less than $20.
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Emma Watson stopped by The Ellen Show to chat about her turn as a Disney princess in Beauty and the Beast and to also join in on DeGeneres' favorite pastime: pranking people.
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We are a nation of gluttons, and our national pastime has reflected as much ever since Babe Ruth opened our eyes to the majesty of the home run in the early 119.43s.
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In turning a royal pastime into a profitable business, the founders of tracks like Saratoga and Churchill Downs democratized the sport, but they also planted the seeds of horse racing's slow demise.
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Just like it's a common pastime for many city dwellers to argue about the precise boundaries of neighborhoods, there's often some disagreement about the exact contours of the U.S.'s various regions.
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In fast-paced and modern South Korea, Go is sometimes seen as a game from the past, an idle pastime enjoyed by older villagers in the summertime shade of a large tree.
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Revisited today, the deeper truth of Greenberg's script also lies in its overarching metaphor, wherein baseball isn't just a popular pastime but a stand-in for a particularly American kind of mythmaking.
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Instead, interest in both Japan and South Korea appears to be linked to a longer history of speculative financial trading as a recreational pastime — and to the general interest in virtual goods.
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Phil Scott, a Republican, has done an about-face in his rural state, where hunting is a major pastime and which has some of the most lax gun laws in the country.
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Sechin's main hobby is hunting big game — an important social pastime among politicians and businessmen in Russia — and he reportedly likes to give Rosneft partners sausages made out of animals he's killed.
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At the origins of the pastime — mid-18th-century England — women, shut out from most colleges and learned gatherings, opened their living rooms to male luminaries in an effort at intellectual autonomy.
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Garmadon, who wants to be a mayor, is a megalomaniac whose regular assaults on peace and normalcy are breathlessly covered by the news media and whose favorite pastime is firing his underlings.
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What stuck with me more than any of those, though, were the three hours I spent with Mr. Wright, engaging in his favorite pastime of driving around and looking at old houses.
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Ms. Miller grew up in Indiana, but she loved visiting her grandfather, an electrician whose pastime was salvaging castoffs left at the dump when the summer people went back to the city.
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He doesn't know the half of it — the scene was written and shot months before a polarizing presidential contest and new administration made fretting over the soul of America a national pastime.
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But what makes it vital to so many different societies on so many different levels, taking it beyond just a pastime and into the realm of the mythical, is its very internationality.
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I first visited his grave as a drunken freshman, late at night — this was something of a student pastime — but was more moved by my sober sojourns with the dead poet in daylight.
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Hours ahead of the United States and obligated to sit through a series of meetings, the President has expressed frustration at missing out on a preferring pastime: watching and commenting upon the news.
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As March Madness draws to a close, so does our annual cultural fixation with putting anything and everything into competitive brackets, an online pastime that seemed to reach a fever pitch in 2018.
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The glasses date from a time when reading was much rarer a pastime than being; you'd grope for them to see a book, while relying on your naked eyes for driving, talking, walking.
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Every time our heroines appear to be staring at the jewels for an unnaturally long time—so that they can eventually steal them—they pass off their fascination as an endemically feminine pastime.
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Wang doesn't want to say how much he has invested in his birds, though he spends almost $1,500 a month looking after their health, and describes his pastime as wagering time and money.
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It's modern in its ideas but a throwback in its execution, a testament to the simple power of good storytelling that makes it an excellent pastime for, say, a holiday road trip home.
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"Whether it's preserving the sanctity of America's pastime or protecting trade secrets, those that unlawfully gain proprietary information by accessing computers without authorization must be held accountable for their illegal actions," Magidson said.
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Yelling at innocent telecoms devices might be America's second favorite pastime since the days of the Radiola Grand, but it's always better to yell at your devices with loved ones by your side.
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"On behalf of Major League Baseball, I send my deepest condolences to Frank's wife Barbara, daughter Nichelle, their entire family and the countless fans who admired this great figure of our National Pastime."
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With all the cheering and the music, with runners dressed in tuxedos, tutus and Superman outfits, marathoners may be excused if they are not focusing on the American Revolution and the American pastime.
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And they also gave birth to video rental stores, which in 1988, numbered in the tens of thousands in the US. Picking up a movie to rent on Friday night was America's pastime.
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In New York City, in the nineteen-seventies, when I was a kid, recreational ice hockey was a curiosity, an obscure pastime of hard-nosed Long Islanders, Massholes, preppies, and Hell's Kitchen roughnecks.
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Sampling chocolates is a pastime many of us pay money to indulge in, but the makers of Cadbury want to change that and instead reward people willing to taste test their new creations.
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I think it's fair to say that most people care about baseball for the game itself: as a pastime, an escape, or a vessel for meaning, or a way to connect with others.
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