nighttime
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"Uncovering these mechanisms will help us better understand how nighttime physiology and sex-specific factors modulate caffeine's effects."
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
It was nighttime, with below-freezing temperatures, and the coffee shop was closed.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026
After her parents’ divorce, Huerta’s grandfather helped raise her and her two brothers while her mother, Alicia Fernandez, waited tables during the day and pulled nighttime shifts at a cannery.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
The three-day affair took place at the Oakland Coliseum and Arena and had the air of a music festival rather than a corporate event, with a nighttime DJ set by Anderson .Paak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Another sobering accident happened in the dark when Galina “Galya” Dokutovich, one of the navigators, returned from a nighttime flight mission that summer.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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