bed
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I showered, collapsed on a bed that didn’t require earplugs or a ladder, then went shopping for non-REI clothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
And then when that was finished, there was another script on my bed, and I said, ‘OK.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
"In parts of southern Afghanistan, some hospitals are now seeing three or four severe malnourished children for every available bed," he warned.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
"He's smiling, he's responding to us. Before now, he's just been a small baby lying on a bed."
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
For two months Mama lay unconscious on that bed, the five of us, with Nollie on the evening shift, taking turns at her side.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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It’s church bells; bunk beds in 15-euro hostels; and some grand cities but also lots of tiny towns that exist because people with backpacks keep arriving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
ICE paid for them using $45 billion approved by Congress for ICE detention last year, enough for the agency to meet the administration’s goal of 100,000 detention beds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
After a struggle to find suitable hospital beds, he has now had device called a Berlin Heart, external fitted, which takes over the function of his heart.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The cyclical freezing and thawing of soil also brings old shells to the surface, Goldammer said, much as flower beds can seem to produce fresh stones every winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
They rushed home and wakened family members, knocked on neighbors’ doors, roused children from their beds, spreading the news.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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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
I walked the wooded banks of the rivers that converge in the capital and found just a few dozen spots where men had bedded down on simple mats of cardboard or newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
His return could tilt this year's title run in City's favour, but Fabregas believes the Belgian will have to be bedded in gently.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
As dusk approached, he bedded down at home in case the Israeli army advanced at nightfall.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
I asked Georgia Boy one night as we bedded down, trying to arrange our netting to keep out those buzzing bloodsuckers that always seemed to find ways to get to our skin.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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Hundreds of volunteers hurried through the packed parking lot next to Bogota's largest stadium, forming human chains to pass donated water bottles, food provisions, sanitary products and bedding to the sorting area.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Tractor Supply is responding by lowering prices on some of its popular items, including pine shavings for animal bedding and premium pet-food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The next morning, she woke up to a "horrible realisation", feeling itchy with red lumps over her body and blood spots smeared on the bedding — the tell-tale signs of bed bugs, she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
A review of sleepwear and bedding fibre types found that bedding and clothing can affect thermal comfort during sleep.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The front rooms were filled with piles of blankets and bedding, a few stacked mattresses, and a number of unidentifiable gray plastic tubs.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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