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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtime
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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
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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
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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
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Public workers are reporting real wage declines of over 70% since the start of the year, and strikes are spreading among healthcare workers, teachers and pensioners.—
Antonio Maria Delgado
July 8,
Miami Herald,
8 July 2025
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On the other hand, the club also intends to bring salaries and fees down to a more sustainable level.—
Manuel Veth,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Raise salaries, diminish contractual obligations to teach, include the expenses of laboratory instruction and add the depreciation of expensive buildings — all factors in the sciences — and tuition becomes wholly inadequate to cover even the cost of instruction.—
Clifford Ando,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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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
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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
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Scanlon and his comrades are literally driving a bomb through the jungle with a big theoretical paycheck waiting for the survivors.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Students also learn to read a paycheck – and protect against wage theft and employer exploitation.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
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This fee goes directly to staff payroll and provides a living wage to our team.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
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An uncomfortable truth is that many remaining U.S. garment workers earn a smaller share of a living wage than their counterparts in some of the countries where a lot of American clothing is made, such as Cambodia or Vietnam.—
Elizabeth Cline,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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Reporting thresholds for Form 1099-K (for payment card and third-party network transactions), Form 1099-MISC (for payments not covered by other 1099 forms), and Form 1099-NEC (for nonemployee compensation) have been changed.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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With great profits came job security, prestige and hefty compensation packages, driving glamorization of STEM fields to students and early-career professionals.—
Aman Kidwai,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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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
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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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“Overtime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtime. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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