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small hours

NOUN
earliest hours of day
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In the small hours of the morning, his brain is loose, the world is silent, and he can read, think deeply and really focus on the problems he’s spent a lifetime trying to solve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Savage added that this joy in the face of institutional indifference to our suffering, our dancing into the small hours of the night, was indispensable for establishing political force and pushback during the AIDs crisis.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

The UN was moving aid convoys in the small hours of the morning to stop them being robbed.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024

Intensive sessions with all sorts of delegates went well into the small hours of Wednesday morning after the conference presidency’s initial document angered many countries by avoiding decisive calls for action on curbing warming.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

And so Betsie and I arrived in Barracks 8 in the small hours of that morning, bringing not only the Bible, but a new knowledge of the power of Him whose story it was.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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