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overnight

[oh-ver-nahyt, oh-ver-nahyt, oh-ver-nahyt] / ˈoʊ vərˈnaɪt, ˈoʊ vərˌnaɪt, ˌoʊ vərˈnaɪt /












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Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Oil prices are higher too overnight after more skirmishing in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

But it would also become a time of an enormous sense of loss for people in the east who found their socialist society absorbed, almost overnight, into the capitalist west.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

The Fed sets the overnight, or short-term, interest rate.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

Several articles for the Monday paper had been left at the machine overnight.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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