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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
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
While the teenager had overslept, their school had gone into lockdown.
—Nouran Salahieh, Michelle Krupa and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
Research has also shown that SAD can severely affect sleep, including a tendency to oversleep or sleep fewer hours a night, and this could affect one’s quality of life.
—Sophie Okolo, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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
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
While the teenager had overslept, their school had gone into lockdown.
—Nouran Salahieh, Michelle Krupa and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
Research has also shown that SAD can severely affect sleep, including a tendency to oversleep or sleep fewer hours a night, and this could affect one’s quality of life.
—Sophie Okolo, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversleep
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After all the cardinals began sequestering in Conclave, they are shown praying, eating and sleeping in the same living quarters.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Green has been arrested about 30 times, many for criminal trespass for sleeping in building doorways and stairwells, and violated parole after he was released from prison in 2021, police sources said.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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There wasn’t much drop off, which is a testament to TCU’s recruiting and roster retention under Dykes.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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Peers who emerged in the same mid-2000s period have quietly dropped off the New York calendar—or out of fashion entirely.—
Nicole Phelps,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Oversleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversleep. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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