The word “overnight” is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to describe something that occurs or happens quickly, or to refer to a period of time that spans one night. For example, “The decision to close the business was made overnight.”.
This didn't happen overnight.
Few expect a multilateral system for negotiating sovereign debt workouts to spring up overnight.
He can take heart from the fact that research has shown that the move from on-the-day to overnight printing by almost all evening titles has not made that much difference to sales.
Yet it had determined much of the election coverage, eclipsing policy analysis, and had set the expectations and planning of the overnight programmes.
Instead, I travelled overnight to Munich through the velvety black outline of the Alps.
While it is undoubtedly positive that the world (and by the world, we mean the press and social media) has appeared to embrace Jenner and all that she represents, it is less pleasing to see how she has, overnight, become subject to the same treatment as every other woman in the mainstream media.
It was a sign of the changing way viewers watch TV that the on-demand iPlayer audience was nearly half the programme's overnight TV audience of 4.7m.
Thanks to Ludwig my first paper got accepted! The editor wrote me that my manuscript was well-written
Listya Utami K.
PhD Student in Biology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia