graveyard shift
noun
: a work shift beginning late at night (such as 11 o'clock)
also
: the workers on such a shift
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But years later, a detective would ask her to relive this particular graveyard shift.
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Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
The titular security professional, as this loquacious young man thinks of himself, guards a Manhattan residential building on the graveyard shift when trouble, in the shape of two police officers, comes walking into his lobby.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
The anchor, however, is weighing exiting the network rather than taking the graveyard shift, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
One of her parents works long days; the other works the graveyard shift.
—Lynne Peeples, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
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Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
The titular security professional, as this loquacious young man thinks of himself, guards a Manhattan residential building on the graveyard shift when trouble, in the shape of two police officers, comes walking into his lobby.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
The anchor, however, is weighing exiting the network rather than taking the graveyard shift, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
One of her parents works long days; the other works the graveyard shift.
—Lynne Peeples, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Graveyard shift.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graveyard%20shift. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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