resting

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Both bots identified dips in my heart-rate variability data and an increase in resting heart rate from my smartwatch, which could indicate my body has been fighting an illness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Shear, with a resting face that seems halfway to panic attack, plays Sam, whose free-floating anxiety is enough to make him faint in public after getting laid off.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"We're just glad we could provide a cozy resting spot in our store," he added.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, it is an offence to deliberately capture, injure, kill or disturb beavers, or damage or destroy their breeding or resting places, without a licence.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

And next to the rings, resting on a kind of pedestal, was a shining, multicolored ball, almost the size of his fist.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville