overnight
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Emergency alert systems in Russia and Ukraine were hit in cyber attacks overnight, with fake warnings of possible nuclear strikes broadcast to users in both countries.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Meanwhile overnight lows will fall to 2 or 3C in the north, and around 5 to 8C further south.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
You wake up worried about the world—what fresh horrors have transpired overnight?
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Kaufman modified the terms of visitation, barring the child from staying overnight with Berry, when she granted Martinez’s temporary restraining order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
In order to reach Australia, humans had to cross a number of sea channels, some more than 60 miles wide, and upon arrival they had to adapt nearly overnight to a completely new ecosystem.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
And a few more hospital overnights than were on the holiday itinerary...
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Nobody imagined using Wi-Fi to livestream Thursday Night Football from a multinational tech conglomerate that also overnights toilet paper and garden gnomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Elegant, clutter-free and homey, the condominium is a calm place to come home to after working long shifts, including overnights, at Children’s Hospital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
“I travel and camp in the backcountry year round and this includes overnights when the temperature dips to -20ºF,” she wrote via email.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
Grandma and Mother continued to work very hard to keep secrets about whether Papa really had left home forever or whether or not he was on one of his frequent overnights.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
We overnighted in places where we could take the trees out of the van, water them and give them a couple of hours of light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
MedMen was so afraid of me and the pettiness and my vitriol that they overnighted us a check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2024
He said he paid extra to have it overnighted to his home.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
She occasionally overnighted about an hour outside Detroit with Judy Chiodo, a fellow Trump rally-trotter, rather than drive all the way home to Sault Ste. Marie.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021
Had we chosen an urban Quebec vacation we probably would have overnighted at Auberge de St. Antoine which offers a 40 percent winter discount.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2018
The men in separate canoes were returning to shore after overnighting on the lake’s Deer Island.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
He has cleaned up and repaired its body, added performance and suspension upgrades and even outfitted the inside for overnighting.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
My vote goes to overnighting in bigger Prineville, with a morning detour in Mitchell for coffee and croissants.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
“We are the first restaurant that has a team in Italy making fresh pasta and overnighting it,” Uovo cofounder Jerry Greenberg said in an email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2018
Sometimes he travelled closer to the city, overnighting in places like the Merri Creek reserve.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
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