: a night when a person stays awake until a late hour
We're tired today because we had a late night last night.
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Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Uber Eats: Need some late-night food delivery while watching the election results?
—Mike Snider, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
O'Brien's 28 years on late-night TV means he's had one of the longest runs as a talk-show host in the history of American television, placing him ahead of Oprah Winfrey and Larry King, though just behind Johnny Carson and David Letterman.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
That includes blistering winds, snowy mornings, and late-night temperature drops that require a new level of layering techniques and transitional separates to survive unscathed.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2024
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Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that a late-night quip about a toilet paper shortage caused a run on the product at grocery stores across the country in 1973, nearly a half-century before widespread pandemic hoarding of that important bathroom product.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Uber Eats: Need some late-night food delivery while watching the election results?
—Mike Snider, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
O'Brien's 28 years on late-night TV means he's had one of the longest runs as a talk-show host in the history of American television, placing him ahead of Oprah Winfrey and Larry King, though just behind Johnny Carson and David Letterman.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
That includes blistering winds, snowy mornings, and late-night temperature drops that require a new level of layering techniques and transitional separates to survive unscathed.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Late-night.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/late-night. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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