dead of night
Example Sentences
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Here, "your information and history are being removed in the dead of night," he told AFP.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
Ten months after the most mind-boggling trade in basketball history went down in the dead of night, only one thing is unsurprising.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
Sometimes these turn up in the dead of night, around Europe's airports, including one in Belgium's main airport near Brussels earlier this month.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025
Then came a flash of light so bright that in the dead of night they could briefly see out their window the rocks and gullies of the San Gabriel foothills behind their house.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
But going offshore in the dead of night is different.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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