graveyard shift
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For years, Khalwinder Singh Bhengura lived an unassuming life in Arlington, Texas, where the 69-year-old Indian immigrant works a graveyard shift preparing passenger meals for an airline catering company.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I always did the graveyard shift: I worked for 54 years.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
He drove to Arizona from his native California after determining that no other streamer had taken the graveyard shift on the Guthrie beat, and he plans on streaming the residence deep into the night.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
"We are ghosts on the night shift," says Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked the graveyard shift at a south London market for seven years.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
The hours inch by, slower than a graveyard shift on the watchtowers.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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