overtime
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Though he trailed 13-10 in the final minutes, he was now close enough for a game-winning touchdown or a possible field goal to force overtime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Leigh Day said judges did uphold 2024 findings on night-time premiums, overtime premiums and paid rest breaks.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
For his seven seasons with the Clippers, he was a part-time worker getting paid excessive overtime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Roughly 40 percent of businesses in Japan are operating under specific labour-management agreements that legally allow monthly overtime of up to 100 hours, according to the labour ministry.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Bull was reading an account of a Celtic-Knickerbocker game that had gone into overtime.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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The action raced like an overtimed kinetoscopic film.
From A Man to His Mate by Stockton Mulford
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