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slumber

[sluhm-ber] / ˈslʌm bər /


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If AI lives up to the hopes of the bulls, dividend investing will be, if not dead, in an even deeper slumber.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Record sightings have been reported again this year as the bears emerge from their winter slumber, according to local media.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

Nvidia’s stock has awakened from its slumber, clocking its seventh consecutive day of gains.

From MarketWatch Apr. 9, 2026

Natural disasters are inevitable, but often, the most devastating slumber for decades, sometimes centuries, only awakening when provoked.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2026

One night, she invited me over to her suburban home for a slumber party.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Sunderland woke from their first-half slumbers, detected the growing anxiety around the stadium, and a sense of inevitability accompanied a thunderous 80th-minute equaliser from Brian Brobbey.

From BBC Jan. 4, 2026

As the sun still slumbers early Monday, patches of dense fog are cloaking parts of Puget Sound and the southwest interior, including areas in and around Tacoma, Bellevue, Seattle and Bremerton.

From Seattle Times Oct. 16, 2023

One hundred years old this year, on the south side of Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana, the pepper tree-shaded headquarters of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. slumbers amid the bustling neighborhood he homesteaded and helped develop.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2023

Ghosts of an ailing industry surround Gravitricity’s test site: A supply vessel serving North Sea oil rigs slumbers nearby.

From Science Magazine Apr. 22, 2021

What slumbers in the heart, slumbers in the stone.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Parts of him that had long slumbered were waking up.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2025

The resulting slow leak happened while we slumbered.

From Seattle Times Jun. 26, 2023

While RSV and influenza slumbered these past few years, society was learning an unprecedented amount about their behavior and the effect public health actions have on them.

From Slate Dec. 5, 2022

The offense that had awoken in June has largely slumbered in July, and it had been especially silent through the first two games in Baltimore.

From Washington Times Jul. 25, 2021

The bookshelves with their neatly ordered manuscripts slumbered in the shadows, while overhead pale moonlight wafted through the stained glass windows, lighting on the bronze statues of past Librarians standing vigil over the galleries.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

"The border with Lithuania is in 30 minutes," the assistant shouted to rouse slumbering passengers.

From Barron's Oct. 29, 2025

If there is indeed a slumbering mass of Americans who believe in real “we the people” democracy, they need to wake up. immediately.

From Salon Jan. 28, 2025

For example, lower levels of sleep apnoea – when breathing stops and starts while slumbering – is thought to be down to losing weight around the tongue and throat, which can block the airways.

From BBC Jan. 20, 2025

I had been making as much noise as possible to alert any slumbering wild creatures, but when I reached some fallen trees that blocked the trail, I laid down, closed my eyes and listened.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2024

Here, her body was tense, trying to avoid inching too close to Shae’s slumbering form.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo




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