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A lot of healthcare professionals, including doctors and nurses, donated time by working extra long hours without compensation to take care of patients.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Tanming Linen Pants After a few days of travel and long hours spent sitting, squeezing into a pair of jeans can feel like an Olympic event.
—Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026
The long hours spent fishing were also good for meditating and reinforced his belief in the destiny marked out for him.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
But the industry, and small businesses such as the cigar factory, run on low wages, long hours and unsafe, unsanitary working conditions.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Tanming Linen Pants After a few days of travel and long hours spent sitting, squeezing into a pair of jeans can feel like an Olympic event.
—Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026
The long hours spent fishing were also good for meditating and reinforced his belief in the destiny marked out for him.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
But the industry, and small businesses such as the cigar factory, run on low wages, long hours and unsafe, unsanitary working conditions.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
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“Long hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20hours. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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