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Lombardi often put in long hours running his family’s 17-year-old real estate business in São Paulo, Brazil, working alongside two of his older sisters.
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Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Harvesting requires intense stretches of long hours during short windows of time to bring in and process crops, one reason that ag workers have been excluded from federal overtime requirements.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Our show is incredibly difficult to make at times with long hours, challenging stunts and elaborate disasters.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
Yeah, things got scary, and the Chinese government, local firefighters, and even everyday citizens had to work long hours to get them to safety.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 8 Oct. 2025
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Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Harvesting requires intense stretches of long hours during short windows of time to bring in and process crops, one reason that ag workers have been excluded from federal overtime requirements.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Our show is incredibly difficult to make at times with long hours, challenging stunts and elaborate disasters.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
Yeah, things got scary, and the Chinese government, local firefighters, and even everyday citizens had to work long hours to get them to safety.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for long hours
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“Long hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20hours. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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