Automattic / Automattic/harper

Correct confusing "over time" and "overtime"

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enhancement harper-core linting
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Description

**The Error**

Very often I see people using the noun "overtime" (work beyond your normal hours paid at a higher rate) when they mean the adverb "over time" (gradually).

The reverse probably happens but I haven't noticed it.

**Examples:**
1. **Overtime**, I raised the price and built up to 4 licensing levels.
2. Initially the focus will be on simple implementations but **overtime** we can hopefully add more complex context and controls as well.
3. they don't need a whole schema to be defined and the schema's are changing **overtime**
4. Starting is simply that, but **overtime** I would like to make it more simple to do that
5. **overtime**, I guess we will see sha256 and some other hash function to have open source implementation in cairo-lang
6. Does it slowly happen **overtime** and keeps getting worse?

While looking for examples I found different kinds of wrong uses:
- When a long-time task was **overtime**, seems the memory was chaotic that some invalid input and output was generated. (meaning the task ran longer than expected or missed some cutoff time?)

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the existing handling and tests for “overtime” and “over time”; use the listed examples to determine the intended distinction, then add coverage showing gradual-change uses are corrected or flagged while noun uses remain valid.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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