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midnight hours

NOUN
small hours
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Could be lack of sleep from spending many midnight hours glued to weather apps while under a tornado watch, or worrying over my not-as-feral-as-she-used-to-be kitty who refuses to come inside during a storm.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025

During days spent in the archives and during the midnight hours of my own attempts to write, it was liberating to start questioning the ways I’d understood torment as a prerequisite to beauty.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018

Visitors will find some 600 portable toilets around Madras, serviced during the midnight hours when traffic hopefully will ebb.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2017

She heard a couple of days ago that the airport was closing its doors during the midnight hours.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2015

Nancy was invariably the last of the family to retire; as she had once informed her friend and home-economics teacher, Mrs. Polly Stringer, the midnight hours were her “time to be selfish and vain.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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