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Like a lot of tennis fans, journalist Giri Nathan watched Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner duel into the small hours of the morning at the 2022 U.S. Open, bearing witness to Alcaraz saving match point on his way to winning a five-set thriller.
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Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 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
The Senate approved the measure in the small hours of Thursday morning.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 17 July 2025
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Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 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
The Senate approved the measure in the small hours of Thursday morning.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 17 July 2025
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“Small hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small%20hours. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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