overtime

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Recent Examples of overtime Mitchell carried that late-season momentum into the postseason, totaling nine points on 3-of-4 shooting from three-point range in overtime of the Heat’s playoff-clinching win over the Atlanta Hawks in the play-in tournament on April 18. Miami Herald, 8 July 2025 No tax on tips and overtime is in effect for the 2025 tax year. Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025 Among Butker’s four field goals in the Chiefs’ 25-22 victory over the 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII were a 57-yarder, the longest in Super Bowl history, and a 29-yarder with 3 seconds left to send the game to overtime. Kansas City Star, 7 July 2025 The officers, who were part of a crime-reduction overtime initiative, found Ennis swigging a beer from a paper bag in the park by W. 137th St. and Riverside Drive about 10:05 p.m. Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for overtime
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Noun
  • Since then, Zelensky has worked double time to signal his appreciation for Trump’s efforts, including having his country agree to a mineral rights deal with the United States that could serve as a form of payment for U.S. support in the war.
    Ian Swanson, The Hill, 19 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • This begs a clear question of training providers, employers, and governments: What if your workforce investment strategy was judged not by how many people enrolled, but by how many got hired with better wages after completing it?
    Jason Wingard, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • More than 3,000 Sacramento County workers went on strike Tuesday morning urging the Board of Supervisors to raise employee wages.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Just this year, Marner will collect $9.45 million of the $15 million coming between the signing bonus and salary.
    Tyler Small, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • But using a trade exception, which allows a team to acquire a player in a trade even if their salary would otherwise put the team over the salary cap or the team is already over the salary cap, hard caps teams at the first apron.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Other factors, like a federal minimum wage of $7.50 that has not changed since 2009 and a private healthcare system, also likely contributed to its low ranking.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
  • In May, the council passed an ordinance to raise the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 per hour — higher than the city’s minimum wage — with Park, Rodriguez and Councilmember John Lee voting against it.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • That means filling up at the pump is swallowing up a smaller and smaller chunk of paychecks.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
  • However, when Mi-ji accidentally finds it, the two discuss not getting married until after Mi-ji finishes her graduate degree and gets her first paycheck.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • After all, the firm is contending with a massive headwind of costs that include around £430 million of wage hikes via national insurance contributions and higher living wages, food inflation, and elevated price competition from its peers.
    John Choong, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator, the report found that 65.7% of entry-level jobs in KC pay a living wage of $22.75 an hour or $47,320 annually.
    Ramal Nasim, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The compensation failed to account for the lifetime of income and family wealth his land provided.
    Willem Marx, NPR, 7 July 2025
  • Clear, straightforward compensation tied to real outcomes builds trust and keeps teams focused on what actually drives growth.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • The board members are allowed to pick up extra shifts outside their 40-hour union work week, getting paid time and a half.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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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