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overnight

[oh-ver-nahyt, oh-ver-nahyt, oh-ver-nahyt] / ˈoʊ vərˈnaɪt, ˈoʊ vərˌnaɪt, ˌoʊ vərˈnaɪt /












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The Israeli military said on Thursday it had sent forces to the area a second time, overnight, and dismantled two outposts, detaining one Israeli.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Cloud-computing company CoreWeave and server company Super Micro Computer, which both showed strong sales growth in quarterly reports overnight, each rose 19%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

More than 450 Ukrainian drones were also shot down by the Russian air defences overnight, Moscow said.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

But I was happily surrounded by Tail Town’s 39 loving and free-roaming cat residents, all up for adoption and curious about humans staying overnight in their 2,000-square-foot domain.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Chess fell asleep Friday night feeling like he had a weight pressing down on his heart, and he woke up Saturday morning feeling like the weight had done nothing but grow overnight.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Nobody imagined using Wi-Fi to livestream Thursday Night Football from a multinational tech conglomerate that also overnights toilet paper and garden gnomes.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

Stays at Swiss five-star hotels make up around 8% of all overnights, but the guests in them contribute at least 25% of Switzerland's total revenue from tourism.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2025

Yelmi Martinez, a single mother of three in Fresno who works overnights stocking shelves at a Walmart, said she’ll likely need to visit a food bank over the holidays.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2023

Hill has nurses come in to monitor his son on most overnights, but he delivers care during the day.

From Seattle Times Jun. 27, 2023

Conrad and I had just thought he was having overnights.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

MedMen was so afraid of me and the pettiness and my vitriol that they overnighted us a check.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2024

Of the affected voters, a lawyer for the county told the court that 585 had already been overnighted a ballot or had canceled their absentee ballot and voted early.

From Reuters Nov. 7, 2022

Mr. Budowich said the committee overnighted a formal letter alerting him to the subpoena which arrived at his residence in California on Dec. 22.

From Washington Times Dec. 29, 2021

She occasionally overnighted about an hour outside Detroit with Judy Chiodo, a fellow Trump rally-trotter, rather than drive all the way home to Sault Ste. Marie.

From Washington Post Jul. 15, 2021

Had we chosen an urban Quebec vacation we probably would have overnighted at Auberge de St. Antoine which offers a 40 percent winter discount.

From New York Times Nov. 26, 2018

BTW: If you’re overnighting in Paso Robles, consider Sensorio, a walk-through display of ever-changing lights, most of it concocted by artist Bruce Munro.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2025

The men in separate canoes were returning to shore after overnighting on the lake’s Deer Island.

From Washington Times Dec. 5, 2023

But while overnighting there may be spiritually rewarding, it was physically demanding.

From New York Times Sep. 25, 2022

My friend’s mom notably wrangled our gang of overnighting 20-somethings with the imperturbable grace of a seasoned host.

From Washington Post Dec. 16, 2021

Sometimes he travelled closer to the city, overnighting in places like the Merri Creek reserve.

From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus




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