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mattress

[ma-tris] / ˈmæ trɪs /


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Does this AI want to kill you, neg you or put you through a mattress?

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Auletta details how Holmes’ apartment was basically just a mattress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

He seems taken aback when the bed they’ve provided has no mattress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

In diligent, exhausted Japan, self-described elite "competitive sleepers" vied to lie down, relax and nap the fastest and deepest in a contest organised by a mattress company.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Every available mattress is dirty, rickety, and sagging.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“And we never heard back,” Miranda said, telling me she had seen people set up camp at the property, bringing in mattresses, book shelves and clothing racks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

This year the warehouse is piled high with brand new mattresses ready for families in need.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

During the day, hunger strikers lie on mattresses under tarpaulins, with portraits of BR Ambedkar and freedom fighters behind them.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

He’d split from Tennessee after just one season to take the USC job, leaving Volunteers fans to burn mattresses in protest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

She and the other girls stayed in a rundown house with shabby equipment and patched straw mattresses.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


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