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layover

[ley-oh-ver] / ˈleɪˌoʊ vər /
NOUN
break
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STRONGEST


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But it wasn’t until the fall of 2022, during a layover at Miami airport, that things really accelerated.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Tuesday with a layover in Boston, and another that gave us one hour to change terminals in Houston and would get us home around 1 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

But this is my third time back in Chicago as an adult, and the first that feels like more than a long layover — the first that’s starting to stitch itself into something like permanence.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

“I’m packing my patience,” said Jamie Haley, a marketing consultant based in Palm Springs, Calif. She’s planning to travel Friday to Toronto for a friend’s wedding, with a layover in Phoenix.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025

We boarded the bus in late afternoon and rode with-out incident to Selma, where I had a long layover before taking another bus into the state capital.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin