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Recent Examples of oversleep
Finally the proper authority, who had overslept, showed up to unlock the gate.
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Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
The slowest builder finished before the one who overslept.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
On Tuesday, Willard made an appearance on The Team 980 after missing an earlier show on WJFK-FM 106.7, chalking up the absence to oversleeping and being on West Coast time.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
Last spring, the Today show reported that people were oversleeping due to silent alarms.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
The Season 3 penultimate and finale episodes ‘Getting There’ and ‘Jews on a Plane’ aired on Comedy Central in 2016, the first half featuring the duo in a rush to get to the airport after oversleeping, forgetting a passport and getting stuck in the subway.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
While the teenager had overslept, their school had gone into lockdown.
—Nouran Salahieh, Michelle Krupa and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
During the last annular solar eclipse in October, Jonah Branch accidentally overslept and missed the 'ring of fire' celestial event.
—Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
The slowest builder finished before the one who overslept.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
On Tuesday, Willard made an appearance on The Team 980 after missing an earlier show on WJFK-FM 106.7, chalking up the absence to oversleeping and being on West Coast time.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
Last spring, the Today show reported that people were oversleeping due to silent alarms.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
The Season 3 penultimate and finale episodes ‘Getting There’ and ‘Jews on a Plane’ aired on Comedy Central in 2016, the first half featuring the duo in a rush to get to the airport after oversleeping, forgetting a passport and getting stuck in the subway.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
While the teenager had overslept, their school had gone into lockdown.
—Nouran Salahieh, Michelle Krupa and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
During the last annular solar eclipse in October, Jonah Branch accidentally overslept and missed the 'ring of fire' celestial event.
—Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversleep
sleep in
Verb
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San Diego County is re-opening a safe parking lot where homeless people can sleep in their vehicles at an overnight location that is more permanent than many other homelessness projects around the region.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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Newborns primarily eat and sleep in the first weeks of life, so fathers often struggle to find their role in those early moments.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Oversleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversleep. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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