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bed

[bed] / bɛd /


NOUN
patch of ground for planting
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“I live about a mile from here. I’m going to bed tonight in my own bed for the first time in a long time, knowing that you have my back.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

We were moving to Chicago in shifts and had not yet acquired a kitchen table, chairs or even a bed frame for the apartment.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

“Residents who move in now will be secure in their care and will continue to have access to a Silverado bed throughout the redevelopment process.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

They were told Maliha needed an ICU bed, but that the hospital had none to offer.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

We’re sitting shoulder to shoulder on the edge of Mr. Harris’s bed — now her mom’s bed.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The room had been used as a dormitory when it was a nuclear bunker and he could "see where the outline of all the beds were".

From BBC Jul. 11, 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

Gardeners with raised beds are advised to remove approximately six inches of soil, because excess ash can raise the pH level and prevent nutrients from soaking into the soil bed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

A fully realized edible garden, complete with raised beds and fruiting trees, enhances the property’s sense of abundance and connection to nature.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

“Those are the beds all the Swanburne girls sleep in. It seems Miss Mortimer has given us our own Incorrigible dormitory,” she explained when the children wanted to know why she had laughed.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 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

The wards and corridors are teeming with patients, and with families seeking shelter, who have bedded down on the floor.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2024

Kohli and Rahul bedded down for a fight thereafter but they struggled under the relentless pressure and the scoring rate fell as the paid fought to preserve wickets.

From Washington Times Nov. 19, 2023

They bedded down on the couch and the floor.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

Sheikh Nadeem sat on a plastic chair outside his bedding store in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, scrolling through his phone as he waited for customers he knew were not coming.

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

The MoJ said all new prisoners at the site were now provided with their full entitlement of clothing, bedding and towels.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

What riches this coarse bit of muslin had been in the two weeks since it had been provided: a shield for my head from the scratch and smell of the bedding.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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