overdue
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Board Chair E. Joaquin Esquivel called it a “modernized regulatory approach” and a “generational shift that is long overdue in the way we manage the Bay-Delta.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
While investors have praised the reforms as long overdue, ordinary Nigerians have suffered soaring inflation as fuel and other costs skyrocketed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
"But the outcome of the investigation was not only expected, but it was overdue."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
That’s what Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday evening in Texas, as he commenced a dramatic livestreamed spectacle: Tesla’s new Roadster, almost a decade overdue, was going to fly!
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Books are overdue,” I explain, “they lock you up. They have a special cell for it. Overdue library book cell. If it’s more than ten days overdue, they put you in the hole. Solitary confinement.”
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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