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curfew

[kur-fyoo] / ˈkɜr fyu /
NOUN
late hour
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This Test, remember, was his first involvement with England since the curfew was introduced.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

If you don’t count the military checkpoints, air-raid sirens or 11 p.m. curfew, you wouldn’t know Ukraine was at war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The mayor of Newark has imposed a curfew around an immigration detention center in New Jersey after a series of intense clashes between protesters and police.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

If we call the cops on teens violating a city curfew, it suggests a cavalier attitude toward the perils of the justice system.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

We were sitting in Tante Jans’s front room with Kik and some other young men, who had made us a delivery of forged travel-permits too late to get home by curfew.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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