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overnight

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












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In fact, it sets one: the overnight rate banks charge each other, which affects savings accounts, money markets and short-term Treasury bills.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Instead, they will not have access to Facebook and Instagram overnight, have to follow time limits, and there will be prompts for children who use them for a long time.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Should competing platforms adopt equivalent commitments, the overnight lockout would widen to 10 pm to 7 am and the daily allowance would fall to 60 minutes per app, capped at two hours in total.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

On a return visit, a guitar in her lap, she sings, “In my bell bottom jumpsuits with my rhinestones all aglow / I became an overnight sensation on the Johnny Carson Show.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Matthias felt that he had grown up overnight.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

With fire pits on the beach, showers and a front-row view of the sun sinking into the Pacific, Mike and Nicole Wirth had no complaint about their $45 overnights at Dockweiler Beach.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2026

Stays at Swiss five-star hotels make up around 8% of all overnights, but the guests in them contribute at least 25% of Switzerland's total revenue from tourism.

From BBC Mar. 2, 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

The chosen ones returned from restaurant meals and overnights hand in hand with their new “mom” and “dad.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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

The pastries look as if they were overnighted from Paris, even as the signature breakfast sandwich — a biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese and hot honey — showcases Southern cuisine.

From New York Times Apr. 13, 2024

He said he paid extra to have it overnighted to his home.

From Washington Times Jun. 13, 2023

Of the affected voters, a lawyer for the county told the court that 585 had already been overnighted a ballot or had canceled their absentee ballot and voted early.

From Reuters Nov. 7, 2022

Afraid she wouldn’t be allowed on the plane, Fox phoned her father, who overnighted her passport.

From Washington Post

The men in separate canoes were returning to shore after overnighting on the lake’s Deer Island.

From Washington Times Dec. 5, 2023

Since then, he’s been a fixture in Madrona, overnighting on metal bus benches that were impossibly small for his big frame, then lugging his bags up and down the hills.

From Seattle Times Nov. 22, 2023

My friend’s mom notably wrangled our gang of overnighting 20-somethings with the imperturbable grace of a seasoned host.

From Washington Post Dec. 16, 2021

After that, he traveled around the country in a truck, overnighting in campgrounds.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2014

Sometimes he travelled closer to the city, overnighting in places like the Merri Creek reserve.

From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus




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