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  hours

  plural noun

  a period regularly or customarily appointed for work, business, etc
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  Hours

  plural noun

  another word for the Horae

hours

¹ British  

/ aʊəz /

plural noun

1. a period regularly or customarily appointed for work, business, etc

2. one's times of rising and going to bed (esp in the phrases keep regular, irregular, or late hours )

3. an indefinite period of time

4. Also called (in the Roman Catholic Church): canonical hours.

   1. the seven times of the day laid down for the recitation of the prayers of the divine office

   2. the prayers recited at these times

5. the hours just after midnight

6. until very late

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Hours ² British  

/ aʊəz /

plural noun

1. another word for the Horae

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And that time, the result was unequivocal: the Rams’ approach of showing up 24 hours before the game backfired spectacularly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

In the Bay Area, crews this weekend are shutting down a section of an entire state highway for 55 hours for emergency work to prepare for winter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Chowdhury said: "I did not want this job at the Home Office, I was told there would be adequate support and I could work whatever hours I wanted to work."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The spot, released only 24 hours after El-Sayed’s, carries a message that is the direct inverse of the Michigan candidate’s.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

So far, he’d respected Ba’s wishes, keeping me to the books during business hours and letting me clean only after the store was closed.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Hours of informal conversation, on the other hand, make a podcaster’s editorial choices feel like spontaneous inquiry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Hours earlier, an interview the president did with NBC was published, in which he said intelligence sharing had been restored after a three-day pause.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Hours later, authorities issued a tactical alert about 5:30 p.m. following a report of “more than 100 young adults being unruly” near Crenshaw and Martin Luther King boulevards, Eisenman says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Hours later, another text arrives asking you to rate the experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

On two stools, with elbows propped on the countertop, were the Golden Hours, looking sad as sad could be, their bowls piled high with no fewer than eight unmelting scoops each.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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