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bed

[bed] / bɛd /


NOUN
patch of ground for planting
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Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

"Our living room becomes our bedroom... our one bed becomes the kids' room," he said.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

"I went to bed at 2:00 am, I did not sleep much, but it was worth it," he said.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

On her worst days, battling postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome — POTS, a blood circulation disorder — she has struggled to get out of bed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

We wait for Nana Dee to go to bed, and then we head for the back door.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

You could take the trail all the way to trendy Pampelonne, where sun beds at its beach clubs go for upwards of $140 for the day.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Equipped with beds, mannequins, a mock laboratory, and protective gear, the simulation centre prepares doctors, nurses, and clinicians for deployments in DRC, or from regional countries at risk from the spreading disease.

From Barron's Jul. 11, 2026

She said there were now around 700 beds across 22 treatment centres and 300 more beds in the pipeline, with centres operating at around 90 percent capacity.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

Back at the hospital, they were told there were no beds available.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

She knelt over one of the beds, groaning, digging at one of the plants with her hands.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The dead are placed in a sealed vessel bedded with clover, hay and straw and equipped to regulate airflow, temperature and moisture.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

He said because Gray had arrived in Sir Keir's operation less than a year before the general election, it meant the team "wasn't sort of fully bedded in and tested" prior to entering government.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2025

Photos taken with your smartphone have the location and other information bedded within the image.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2024

As dusk approached, he bedded down at home in case the Israeli army advanced at nightfall.

From Seattle Times Nov. 4, 2023

Here was an oaken sill, cut long ago and sanded clean and bedded true.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

One area of the site even reveals where the paths of a sauropod and megalosaurus once crossed, with Nichols saying the footprints were on the "same bedding plane".

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

He uses mostly poultry litter, an organic fertilizer comprised of bird manure, feathers, bedding material and spilled feed, and he buys a lot of it — 3,125 tons each year.

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 2026

Neither Clover Sonoma nor Double D responded to questions about the bedding.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

A spokeswoman for the eSafety Commission -- Australia's online watchdog -- said the documents only covered a short period of time as the laws were bedding down.

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

Nhamo made her way to a stand of thatching grass to fetch more bedding.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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