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Animals go to their shelter, humans have a siesta, even plants have mechanisms to avoid an overdose of light.

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The entire town seemed to be taking a siesta.

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“I did not present the award for Best Picture. I am not Al Pacino. Maybe you dreamed this during one of your courtroom siestas?”

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Dubbed the “mass siesta,” the event was in commemoration of World Sleep Day.

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While some argue for a stricter definition of the phenomenon, others include naps, siestas, and brief nighttime forays as examples of modern segmented sleep patterns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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