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siesta

[see-es-tuh] / siˈɛs tə /


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He created the YouTube channel Siesta Dog TV which features videos of dogs, for dogs, in colours they can see best.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Instead, Milton veered south, making landfall near Siesta Key and thus sparing Tampa from the worst-case scenarios that many had predicted.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

Hurricane Milton made landfall on Wednesday near Siesta Key, off the west coast of Florida.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

“Give me a break,” Cathay Seabol, a waitress at defendant La Siesta Mexican Food, told The Times in 1997.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2023

Of the six "Idyls," three—"In the Woods," "Siesta," and "To the Moonlight"—are memorable, though uneven; and of these the third, after Goethe's "An den Mond," adumbrates faintly MacDowell's riper manner.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence




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