overtime

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Recent Examples of overtime However, the Avs felt that Dylan Guenther, who also scored the winner in overtime, played the puck back into the Utah zone on his own, which could have negated the offsides. Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025 On the first night of NBA games broadcast on NBC since 2002, the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder held off the Houston Rockets in double overtime, 125-124, before the Warriors later comfortably dispatched the LeBron James-less Lakers, 119-109, in Los Angeles. Andrew Greif, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025 Monitoring retention rate and overtime for first responders and evaluating costs is among their metrics of success. Pj Green october 22, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025 The money, minutes of the supervisors' meeting show, was to pay for overtime. Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overtime
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtime
Noun
  • Those employees would include nonexempt hourly workers who were allegedly denied minimum wage, overtime, double time and other benefits.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Part of the decrease is that the new company’s employees will no longer routinely work weekends, which are time-and-a-half or double time, unless called in to do so.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Farrell adds that for mothers of color, the wage gap is even wider, as Black women earn just 64 cents on the dollar and Latina women earn 54 cents (compared to white men).
    Sarah Bregel, Parents, 28 Oct. 2025
  • My salary would be Rs 45,000 a month, three times the average wage for a qualified individual in regular employment in India.
    Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Per the outlet, the complaint claimed VVV did not pay Miss USA 2024 winner Alma Cooper her full $100,000 salary.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Entry-level North Little Rock police officers earn an annual salary of approximately $52,950.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For 40 minutes, the man squared off against the machine, discussing issues like the minimum wage, electric vehicles and education policy.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • After the nine-month limit, or once the program ends, employers would be required to pay participants at least the state or federal minimum wage, whichever is higher.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As the shutdown drags on for its third week, thousands of federal workers have also experienced missing their first paycheck this week.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For thousands of federal workers still waiting on their paychecks, the delay is forcing many to make difficult choices about rent, groceries and other essentials.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Granor Farm has a staff of more than 30, with over 20 full-time employees who earn a living wage and health benefits.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to cost of living wage increases, the guild is also seeking to preserve layoff protections and add new guardrails to the contract that prevent work from being outsourced to third-party companies and/or non-union labor.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Russ Anderson also failed to challenge the bank’s incentive compensation program, failed to institute effective controls and repeatedly downplayed sales practices misconduct, Hsu previously said.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Thomas worked with that job title for the school district in 2022 and 2023, according to compensation records provided by the state to Transparent California.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • From at least November 2021, Robert Clouston knew that Arizona state law required Colt Grill to pay time and a half for any work over 40 hours per week, the indictment said.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 19 July 2025
  • The Budget Lab at Yale estimates that 8% of U.S. hourly workers and 4% of salaried workers are regularly paid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires overtime pay of at least time and a half once employees have worked 40 hours in a week.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025

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“Overtime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtime. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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