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Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson have been left out of England’s squad to face New Zealand in next week’s second Test as investigations continue into their ‘breach of team protocols’ in the small hours of Monday morning, with Joe Root to stand in as interim captain at the Oval.—Paul Newman, New York Times, 10 June 2026 The airy confines of the stately home where Allied commanders are gathered provide both the grandeur and the contrast to the minutiae inked out on vast maps in the small hours of the night.—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 29 May 2026 Tough Love lives in the latter mode, in the small hours of a night that hasn’t quite dissolved into morning, when life seems perilously short, breathtakingly urgent, and incredibly endless all at once.—Reed Jackson, SPIN, 22 May 2026 In the small hours of 29 November 2019, a young man was captured on CCTV jumping from a fifth-floor flat on Millbank on the Thames.—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for small hours