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Mohammed Hajjaj, whose relatives were among the dead, told the AFP news agency that the site was hit by "heavy bombing" while people were asleep.

From BBC

"I could fall onto my bed asleep having been drunk - but then the alarm would go, I'd get up, pull myself together, and I would go to work," she says.

From BBC

“At one of those screenings, I did look over and there was a woman in the back row who was dead asleep. So you go, ‘Huh.

Asprilla's concerned team-mates once even got a taxi to his house after he did not show up for a team lunch in Newcastle, only to find him asleep following a night on the town.

From BBC

Michelle, 15, plans to "read a book to fall asleep", instead of staying up on her phone and laptop.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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