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sleep

[sleep] / slip /




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I couldn't focus on anything, and I couldn't sleep or eat because of the pain.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

"That wears on you psychologically," Gershkovich said, but added that he was treated ok: "I was allowed to sleep, the food was fine."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

For hospital patients, the incessant beeping and buzzing of alarms from monitors, pumps and other devices can make sleep almost impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Scientists at the University of Rochester Medicine have found that strengthening the body's natural daily rhythms to improve sleep may help the brain recover after a stroke.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Still, I was worn down to a nub by bedtime, too tuckered to sleep.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The most recent 2026 China Sleep Health White Paper finds that while the average surveyed Chinese person sleeps 6.97 hours per night, 23 percent sleep less than 6 hours per night.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Among them are the nurses, paramedics, engineers, lorry drivers and factory workers, who keep the country running while everyone else sleeps.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

At night, he makes his bed on it and sleeps in the open.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

State courts have repeatedly ruled that there is no single way to determine where someone lives, and judges must consider multiple factors, such as where a voter sleeps or stores personal belongings.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Your sister sleeps in the next room, and in the room beyond that, your parents.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

He allegedly slept on the cement floor of a cell and told reporters that he was “not doing well.”

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

He recalled that it was the first city he visited when he arrived in the United States in 2014 and that, back then, he slept in a gym.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

"We found out he was putting his trousers under the mattress and pressing them as he slept."

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The oligarch paid to rent out one of the private islands, where a reception was held and where guests slept.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

When the sun went down, Leah, Lizzie, and Kate went to bed, and slept well.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

"I have been sleeping on the table for two days now," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

McCarthy discourages front sleeping as your neck is turned one way for a long period of time.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

That pattern suggests the sleeping brain adjusts its blood vessels in response to changing neuronal activity and metabolic demand.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

She spent months sleeping on her sister’s couch last year before putting her name on an affordable-housing wait list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“They’re sleeping now. After they had eaten all they could hold, they crawled down in the straw and went to sleep.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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