cot

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Marfisee and her students walked through the surrounding neighborhood, went cot to cot in the women’s dorm and held two informational sessions in December and January to answer patients’ questions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

The law caught him: “a slot open, a cot waiting” in jail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

But the device is also different because it is portable, so it can monitor babies more regularly, and from the comfort of their cot.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 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

That night she ground her teeth as she lay on the cot at the hospital.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer