overdue
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Molly Connah, 32, had been overdue by a day when she took her nine-year-old son Alfie to see Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Library freezes fines, receives magazine 132 years overdue.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
It may have been an overdue reality check.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Concord Public Library said the overdue September 1894 issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine was returned last week after the library announced a freeze on fines.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
When I had been in the demons’ country for over two years, Uncle sent me to make the rounds among some of our regular customers in the Tang people’s town to collect overdue bills.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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