cot
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The law caught him: “a slot open, a cot waiting” in jail.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
Three-week-old Theo is fast asleep in a cot, unaware he is helping to trial new technology that could change the lives of others.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
Jess had to move Junior into a metal toddler bed after he started eating his wooden cot, but this meant he could get out in the night and he chewed his door frame.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025
Jake, nestled into his sleeping bag on a cot underneath the museum's gigantic suspended model of a blue whale, said he was "so happy to be here."
From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025
It was the terrible sense of comprehension she’d felt when Baba’s eyes had closed on that cot so many years ago, when she’d realized he hadn’t gone to sleep but to someplace much farther away.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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