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Recent Examples of overtime
Adin Hill was great manning the goal, allowing the team to navigate overtime before Ivan Barbashev scored the winning goal.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
He's promised to remove taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, and continue tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy, passed during his first term.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
The Clippers, by beating the Golden State Warriors in overtime at Chase Center, earned the five days off that come with clinching a top-six seed.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Then Mitchell got hot in the clutch, scoring nine points on 3-of-4 shooting from three-point range in overtime after a shaky first half that included 0-of-4 shooting from the field.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
He's promised to remove taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, and continue tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy, passed during his first term.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
The Clippers, by beating the Golden State Warriors in overtime at Chase Center, earned the five days off that come with clinching a top-six seed.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Then Mitchell got hot in the clutch, scoring nine points on 3-of-4 shooting from three-point range in overtime after a shaky first half that included 0-of-4 shooting from the field.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtime
Noun
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Its crystal ball discerns patterns to predict what styles will blow up—then guides the requisite design, sourcing, and inventory decisions in double time.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Mayor Pro-Tem Monica Wilson questioned whether the APD would heavily rely on its officers’ double time or seek help from outside agencies.—
Hema Sivanandam,
The Mercury News,
10 Oct. 2024
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By contrast, tariffs would differentiate American industrialization from the British experience, shielding domestic labor from subsistence wages and securing workers opportunities for social-economic mobility.—
Made by History,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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That provides clues on whether businesses are looking to hire and potential wage inflation.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
27 Apr. 2025
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The good news for the Kings is that his next contract comes at a time when the salary cap rises from $95.5 million to $113.5 million over the next three seasons.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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But Morris’ fortunes had seemingly improved by 2019, when he was hired as CSUN’s director of equity and compliance with a $150,000 salary, according to school records reviewed by The Times.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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The country’s current $208 monthly minimum wage — a $4 increase from last year — doesn’t sound like much to Americans.—
Rob Davis,
ProPublica,
25 Apr. 2025
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The lawsuit identifies additional alleged labor violations, including failure to provide accurate wage statements, failure to pay all wages upon separation, and failure to pay minimum wages for work performed off the clock.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The agency has many enforcement powers, such as withholding refunds, taking part of someone’s paycheck and seizing property to pay debts.—
Liz Weston,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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By machines that don’t sleep, don’t call in sick, and don’t need a paycheck.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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This may mean that services shift to prioritize work participation and skill-building in jobs that pay a living wage, ultimately growing economic resiliency so people no longer need public benefits in the future.—
Caroline Whistler,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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So far, no brand has guaranteed its factory workers a living wage, according to the Clean Clothes Campaign, a Dutch advocacy group.—
Rob Davis,
ProPublica,
25 Apr. 2025
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Offers in this section are from affiliate partners and selected based on a combination of engagement, product relevance, compensation, and consistent availability.—
Dan Avery,
CNBC,
9 May 2025
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Robert Hugin, who worked as Celgene’s CEO and then executive chairman, received $51 million in total compensation from 2015 to 2017.—
David Armstrong,
ProPublica,
8 May 2025
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The contract’s annual minimum wage increases are 3 percent in the first year of the contract and two percent in the second and third years, and the agreement provides time and a half pay for work assigned on a holiday.—
Katie Kilkenny,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 June 2024
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In addition to reducing the standard workweek by 20%, Sander’s Thirty-Two-Hour Workweek Act, which enjoys strong union support, would require employers to pay time and a half for workdays exceeding eight hours.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2024
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“Overtime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtime. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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