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sleep

[sleep] / slip /




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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

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

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

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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