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Weebly
Weebly is a drag-and-drop website and eCommerce service founded in San Francisco in 2006 by David Rusenko, Chris Fanini, and Dan Veltri, acquired by Square in 2018.
Weed
Weed: any plant growing where it is not wanted; a context-specific agricultural term, not a botanical category. Distinguished by disturbance tolerance, seed-bank dormancy, and herbicide resistance evolution since 2,4-D (1941).
Weed control
Weed control manages unwanted plants in crops and landscapes. Key facts: herbicide era began with 2,4-D (1942–44); 512 weed species evolved herbicide resistance by 2020; integrated weed management with crop rotation is the leading sustainable strategy.
Weed, California
Weed is a city in Siskiyou County, California, at the western foothills of Mount Shasta, named for lumberman Abner Weed, incorporated in 1961, a historic timber town of about 2,700 people hit by the 2014 Boles and 2022 Mill fires.
Weeds (TV series)
Weeds is a Showtime comedy-drama created by Jenji Kohan, airing 2005-2012 in eight seasons. Mary-Louise Parker stars as widowed suburban mom Nancy Botwin, who sells marijuana in fictional Agrestic, California; theme song Little Boxes; 20 Emmy nominations, 2 wins.
Weeekly
Weeekly (위클리) is a South Korean girl group formed by Play M Entertainment that debuted in 2020 and is known for the 2021 hit "After School".
Weegee
Weegee (Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968), Ukrainian-born American crime and street photographer of nocturnal New York; author of Naked City; not the Exhibition Centre WeeGee in Espoo, Finland.
Weehawken, New Jersey
Weehawken, New Jersey: a dense Hudson County township across from Manhattan, formed March 15, 1859, site of the 1804 Hamilton-Burr duel; 17,827 residents, 0.78 square miles, high-income waterfront community with major flood-resilience projects.
Week
The week is a seven-day time cycle standing between day and month. It derives from Babylonian lunar divisions and the planetary week, was standardized in Rome and adopted by Constantine in 321 CE, and is numbered today under ISO 8601 (Monday first, 52 or 53 weeks).
Week Zero (company)
Week Zero (Chinese: 星期零, brand STARFIELD) is a Chinese plant-based meat company based in Shenzhen, founded in 2019 by Kiki, which raised a US$100 million Series B in January 2022.
Weekend (1967 film)
Weekend (Week-end) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 French-Italian satirical film in which a bourgeois couple drive from Paris to collect an inheritance amid apocalyptic traffic jams and cannibal guerrillas, famous for its 300-metre traffic-jam tracking shot and its closing "End of Cinema" title.
Weekend (2011 film)
Weekend (2011) is Andrew Haigh's British drama, also known simply as Weekend, about Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New), two men who meet in a Nottingham bar and spend one transformative weekend together; made for £120,000, it premiered at SXSW and holds a 95% Tomatometer.
Weekend at Bernie's
Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as employees who pretend their murdered boss is alive.
Weekend at Bernie's II
Weekend at Bernie's II is a 1993 American black comedy sequel directed by Robert Klane, in which Larry and Richard use Bernie's voodoo-revived corpse to find embezzled money.
Weekend Beach Festival
The Weekend Beach Festival is a multi-genre music festival held each July on Poniente Beach in Torre del Mar, Andalusia, Spain, first staged in 2014.
Weekend in Guatemala
Weekend in Guatemala (Week-end en Guatemala) is a 1956 book by the Guatemalan writer and Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias, chronicling the 1954 CIA-sponsored coup that overthrew President Jacobo Árbenz.
Weekend in Taipei
Weekend in Taipei (台北追緝令; 周末狂飙) is a 2024 EuropaCorp action thriller directed by George Huang, written with Luc Besson, starring Luke Evans, Gwei Lun-Mei, and Sung Kang, shot fully in Taipei, grossing about $3 million worldwide.
Weekend Lover (周末情人)
Weekend Lover (周末情人, Zhoumo Qingren) is Lou Ye's 1995 debut feature drama, starring Ma Xiaoqing, Jia Hongsheng, and Wang Zhiwen; shot in 1993 Shanghai, censored for two years, released in weekend midnight screenings, and winner of the 1996 Mannheim-Heidelberg Fassbinder Best Director award.
Weekend Pussy Hunt
Weekend Pussy Hunt, also known as Comic Book during MSN development, is a John Kricfalusi/Spumco Flash web cartoon (2000) starring Dirty Dog chasing Cigarettes the Cat in film noir style; 12 of 14 planned episodes aired on Icebox.com before it folded.
Weekend Update
Weekend Update is Saturday Night Live's satirical news desk segment, running since the October 11, 1975 premiere; conceived by Chevy Chase and Herb Sargent, renamed SNL Newsbreak and Saturday Night News in the 1980s, and currently co-anchored by Colin Jost and Michael Che since 2014.
Weekend Warriors (upcoming film)
Weekend Warriors (Wochenendrebellen remake) is an upcoming Apple Original Films sports comedy-drama written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, starring Mark Wahlberg as a trucker touring all 30 NBA arenas with his autistic son, produced with Plan B and LeBron James's SpringHill; no release date announced.
Weekendavisen's Literature Prize
Weekendavisen's Literature Prize (Weekendavisens Litteraturpris) is an annual Danish literature prize awarded by the newspaper Weekendavisen since 1980, with readers choosing the winner from a shortlist.
Weeki Wachee Springs
Weeki Wachee Springs, also called Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, is a first-magnitude spring in Hernando County, Florida, known for live mermaid shows since 1947.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Weeki Wachee is an area in Hernando County, Florida, built around a first-magnitude spring known for mermaid shows since 1947, a state park since 2008.
Weekly Idol (주간 아이돌)
Weekly Idol (주간 아이돌, Jugan Aidol) is a South Korean K-pop idol variety show premiering July 23, 2011 on MBC every1, later on MBC M, known for Random Play Dance and 2x Speed Dance, hosted since 2025 by Monsta X's Minhyuk and Cravity's Hyeongjun.
Weekly Shonen Jump (American magazine)
Weekly Shonen Jump (American magazine), launched as Shonen Jump Alpha by Viz Media on January 30, 2012, was the English weekly digital manga anthology replacing print Shonen Jump; renamed Weekly Shonen Jump in 2013 for same-day simulpub with Japan.
Weekly Shōnen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ)
Weekly Shōnen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ), Shueisha's weekly shōnen manga magazine founded in 1968, is Japan's best-selling manga magazine with 7.5 billion cumulative copies; print circulation fell to 985,000 in April–June 2026.
Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Weekly Shōnen Magazine (週刊少年マガジン) is Kodansha's weekly shōnen manga magazine, founded March 17, 1959 alongside Shōnen Sunday; it peaked at 4.4 million copies and now circulates about 283,000.
Weekly Torah portion
The weekly Torah portion, or parashah, is one of 54 sections of the Five Books of Moses read publicly in the synagogue over a single Hebrew year.
Weekly World News
Weekly World News was an American satirical supermarket tabloid, 1979 to 2007 in print, published by American Media Inc. Known as "the world's only reliable newspaper," it invented Bat Boy and Elvis-sighting headlines, peaked near 1 million weekly copies, and survives as a website.