siesta
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Have an early breakfast, an afternoon siesta while it's very hot and then a late dinner.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
“It looks like the siesta time of day,” said Carle, science director of the nonprofit Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Animals go to their shelter, humans have a siesta, even plants have mechanisms to avoid an overdose of light.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
Partygoers use the promptu 'hose' showers set up by locals, or take dip in the nearby Buñol river, before enjoying a delicious Spanish meal and a well-deserved siesta!
From DOGO News ● Sep. 8, 2023
She would go to the school at siesta time with the consent of her parents, to whom Pilar Ternera had paid the other half of her savings.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
These aren’t early-afternoon siestas or weekend catnaps; they’re something more unusual.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2024
While some argue for a stricter definition of the phenomenon, others include naps, siestas, and brief nighttime forays as examples of modern segmented sleep patterns.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 4, 2024
People in Spain and Portugal should stop taking siestas and retiring early, leading German politicians and commentators repeatedly advised.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022
"If Churchill can beat Hitler while taking afternoon siestas, you can take a quick break from that TPS report. Keep calm and nap on, everyone," he writes.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2014
Everyone took siestas to avoid the worst heat of the day.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
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