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This will inevitably push many games back into evening slots, which means kick-offs in the small hours of the morning in Europe.
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Matt Slater, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Plus there’s no room in there for that big log that will burn half the night and smolder into the small hours.
—New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2025
Frenetic, handheld scenes of Jordan’s friends guzzling handles of Tito’s at house parties give way to impressionistic passages of those same friends walking through a local nature preserve or pumping gas in the small hours before daylight.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
In neighboring Shanxi province, a bus carrying 14 people went missing near a village in the small hours of Sunday.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
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Matt Slater, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Plus there’s no room in there for that big log that will burn half the night and smolder into the small hours.
—New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2025
Frenetic, handheld scenes of Jordan’s friends guzzling handles of Tito’s at house parties give way to impressionistic passages of those same friends walking through a local nature preserve or pumping gas in the small hours before daylight.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
In neighboring Shanxi province, a bus carrying 14 people went missing near a village in the small hours of Sunday.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
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“Small hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small%20hours. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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