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Recent Examples of night rider
The book begins exactly where the autobiography does: with night riders surrounding the Little family’s Omaha home and smashing its front window with a rifle.
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Lizzie Skurnick, New York Times, 16 May 2025
By the end of the school year, pretty much every item in the apparatus of Southern civil-rights resistance had made an appearance in Clinton, from anti-Black slurs and heckling to cross burnings, bombings, and Ku Klux Klan night riders.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
The land swap between Resolution Copper and the U.S. Forest Service to build the mine was enacted by a late-night rider to a defense appropriations bill in December 2014 by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2020
Have things really changed all that much since the days of Jim Crow and the night riders?
—Michele Langevine Leiby, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
Lizzie Skurnick, New York Times, 16 May 2025
By the end of the school year, pretty much every item in the apparatus of Southern civil-rights resistance had made an appearance in Clinton, from anti-Black slurs and heckling to cross burnings, bombings, and Ku Klux Klan night riders.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
The land swap between Resolution Copper and the U.S. Forest Service to build the mine was enacted by a late-night rider to a defense appropriations bill in December 2014 by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2020
Have things really changed all that much since the days of Jim Crow and the night riders?
—Michele Langevine Leiby, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for night rider
night owl
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When the clock strikes midnight, hungry Kansas Citians will no longer be able to rely on a fixture that has supplied night owls with burgers and fries for years — at least for now.—
Katelyn Umholtz,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2026
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Once each day’s performances conclude, those channels will spend the overnight and early morning hours rebroadcasting the full lineup for night owls, starting at around midnight in most cases and going through breakfast time.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Night rider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/night%20rider. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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