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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Rosie worked graveyard shifts at a factory, per ESPN, while Gerry worked three jobs.
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Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
Topo Padilla, who co-owns Greg Padilla Bail Bonds with his father, said in a phone interview that Brace worked the graveyard shift for 34 years in downtown Sacramento, the majority of them spent working in that same office.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 5 June 2024
Reputation’s tougher bangers captured my stress around working graveyard shifts — 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. — as an overnight editor.
—Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 9 Aug. 2023
After college came a string of menial jobs: in a record store; in a grocery store; the graveyard shift at a gas station.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
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Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
Topo Padilla, who co-owns Greg Padilla Bail Bonds with his father, said in a phone interview that Brace worked the graveyard shift for 34 years in downtown Sacramento, the majority of them spent working in that same office.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 5 June 2024
Reputation’s tougher bangers captured my stress around working graveyard shifts — 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. — as an overnight editor.
—Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 9 Aug. 2023
After college came a string of menial jobs: in a record store; in a grocery store; the graveyard shift at a gas station.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
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