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sleeping

adjective as in dormant

adjective as in asleep

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He reveals he no longer has flashbacks, is sleeping better and is used to his job, which he reveals is taking over the shop for his deceased friend.

From Salon

Some patients with serious psychiatric conditions are still sleeping on sofas at a Belfast mental health facility months after serious building problems were discovered there.

From BBC

She remembers the “thousands of handshakes and hugs and home-cooked meals” and nights spent sleeping on floors.

Richael Keller has always been sensitive to loud commercials, but when thundering streaming-service ads disturbed her sleeping newborn, her reaction was heated enough to blaze a path to the California state Capitol.

In the week after he left, Susan says staff continued to record in the Care App that he was sleeping well and was comfortable in bed.

From BBC

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