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Recent Examples of night rider
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.
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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
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
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
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
Noun
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Sulca joined the local ronda—night patrols formed by peasants to protect their communities from the Shining Path—whom Quechua speakers call tuta puriqkuna, nightwalkers, a term also used to describe Spaniards during colonial times.—
Rachel Nolan,
Harper's magazine,
24 June 2019
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Eliot Schrefer’s new Lost Rainforest series casts sunset as nature’s own Mason-Dixon line, dividing animal kind into daywalkers and nightwalkers — two factions with a xenophobic fear of one another.—
CHRISTOPHER HEALY,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2018
Noun
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For night owls, the Masquerade lounge transforms into the go-to late night venue, with everything from karaoke to silent discos keeping the dance floor busy into the early hours.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Given that almost 50 percent of participants are considered night owls, studying the link between late nights and depression is important to identify ways to reduce depression, Evans explains.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Night rider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/night%20rider. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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