night shift

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In 2026 the city holds the title European Capital of Culture, though culture has been working the night shift here for centuries.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Toxic gas is believed to have built up underground in poorly ventilated tunnels, causing the workers to collapse just before the end of their night shift.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 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

Since April, Chambliss has worked the night shift overseeing a team of 200 welders, plumbers and electricians at a local data-center construction site.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

It was on the "Jewish shift," as the night shift came to be called, that I began to know Schindler personally.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson