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Recent Examples of overstay
Jokes are usually emphasized by dramatic music cutting out (à la comedy movie trailers), a trick that overstays its welcome.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
When all avenues have failed, this is the best way to handle guests who have overstayed their welcome without losing your cool.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
For more than 12 years, DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants who crossed into the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas as minors to live and work in the U.S., without fear of deportation.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
The vast majority don't have a criminal conviction, and their individual situations can vary dramatically, from asylum-seekers who crossed the border to people who flew in on a tourist visa and overstayed.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
When all avenues have failed, this is the best way to handle guests who have overstayed their welcome without losing your cool.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
For more than 12 years, DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants who crossed into the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas as minors to live and work in the U.S., without fear of deportation.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
The vast majority don't have a criminal conviction, and their individual situations can vary dramatically, from asylum-seekers who crossed the border to people who flew in on a tourist visa and overstayed.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overstay
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But the skyrocketing housing costs mean that to some countries, foreigners have outstayed their welcome.—
Jason Lalljee,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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There are infinite ways for SNL to be unbearable: a sketch outstays its welcome, the rookie featured player keeps flubbing his lines, the writers forgo jokes altogether and instead force us to listen to a bizarre piano ballad in an attempt to say something earnest about politics.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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That reactor is now enveloped by a protective shelter to contain the lingering radiation.—
Max Hunder and Anastasiia Malenko,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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There are lingering memories of past layoffs: more than 1,000 jobs in Huntsville were lost when Constellation, a program to return astronauts to the moon, was shut down in 2010.—
Eduardo Medina,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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Instead, numerous Chelsea sequences of possession ended with Jadon Sancho or Pedro Neto clipping crosses towards no one in particular with Nkunku, Palmer — or both — loitering just outside the Brighton penalty area.—
Liam Twomey,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
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As an undercover policeman, his job is to loiter near the men’s bathroom at the local shopping mall and seduce passing trade into committing acts of what his superiors would call gross indecency.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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The city attorney said San Francisco is taking preemptive legal action rather than waiting.—
Artemis Moshtaghian and Chris Boyette,
CNN,
9 Feb. 2025
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Having to wait a year to get inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame was cruel.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Overstay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overstay. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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