sleep
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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
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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
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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
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"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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