afternoon

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But as I sat at MetLife Stadium on Tuesday afternoon watching France dismantle Sweden 3-0, it was hard not to be dazzled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

An 89-year-old woman says she is routinely being helped to bed in the early afternoon because staffing pressures mean her full home care package is not being delivered.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

By Monday afternoon, searchers had recovered the bodies of his sister, Jeannina Sillie, and her husband, Juan Bastidas, both 51-year-old doctors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026

If you have to wait for a building superintendent or a handyman, an experience that is notoriously clock-agnostic, it’s no big deal to work from home that afternoon.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

It's almost four-thirty in the afternoon on September 13, 1848.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman