sleep
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For instance, exercise can improve sleep, mood and reduce stress levels.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
It said vaping had an association with problems including wheezing and couching, poor oral and dental health, poor sleep, mental health problems and eye symptoms.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
I had just begun to lilt toward sleep when my phone buzzed.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
But it also can employ dubious proxies like keyboard strokes and how often your computer screen goes into sleep mode.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But each and every dog, as if by a silent command from Cookie, dug a bit and made a bed and lay down in the snow and went to sleep.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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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
She now sleeps in a plaza near where he worked.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Don’t desert us,” said Dwight Gaines, 65, who usually sleeps in an encampment across from the now-shuttered post office on 7th Street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Now I can look forward to ruining my sleep schedule, chugging iced Americanos, and screaming at the TV at 3 a.m. for a country I don’t live in while our national team sleeps peacefully.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
In all the stories about him he sleeps forever, immortal, but never conscious.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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He once slept an hour a night for a month straight before collapsing at the office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The lie-flat bed was comfortable, but I only slept a couple hours max since it wasn’t a red eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
She slept in parks away from the centre of the city to try and to stay hidden, and says no rough sleeper would turn down a bed if it comes with the right support.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Many Flores inhabitants slept outside for a second night in a row, afraid to go home as hundreds of aftershocks rumbled through the area.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
In the cage next to Hector’s, an ancient brown bear slept curled in a corner.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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The dogs’ sleeping quarters are modeled after the park’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride, with its fort-like corridors made of sun-dried brick, the walls strewn with overgrown jungle vines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"The whole ship was a sweat box," he said, with some passengers in cabins that had no windows resorting to sleeping on the ship's roof.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Rough sleepers -- those sleeping outdoors -- are a minority of England's total homeless, estimated at 382,000 in 2025 by leading charity Shelter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The announcement comes a month after Burnham replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister, and builds on his promise on his first day in office to end rough sleeping.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The ground was still frozen, so I knew the pixies would be sleeping.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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