cot
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Sleeping on a cot in the team facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Devi has used many years’ worth of meager birthday savings to send away for college-admissions materials, which she has cherished “like secret and holy things” and stowed carefully under her cot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"They took him from me and then they told me to go back in the nursery and take the bedding out of his cot and get it ready for the next baby," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
But he also didn’t want to die an old man on a rusted prison cot.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Annoyed to be woken from a cot in his office, the press officer John Powers pointed out the time.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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