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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Most people acknowledge that there are two types of sleepers in the world—early birds and night owls—but research has shown that there are actually four or more sleep-wake cycles.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
30 July 2025
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Younger adults, including most students, are typically night owls, making early mornings a cognitive low point.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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“Night rider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/night%20rider. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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