siesta
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“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
By donating money, people can trigger loud noises, alerts, flicker lights, or make things happen in a room to disturb the streamer from their siesta.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023
Every afternoon at about three, the She Elephant and the others took a siesta.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
“You need lightweight stretchy polyester for pilgrimages — for riding, walking, dancing, siestas in the grass.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
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
While the others were taking their siestas she would practice the clavichord for two hours, knowing that the daily sacrifice would keep Fernanda calm.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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