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sleeping

adjective as in dormant

adjective as in asleep

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Richael Keller has always been sensitive to loud commercials, but when thundering streaming-service ads disturbed her sleeping newborn, her reaction was heated enough to blaze a path to the California state Capitol.

In the week after he left, Susan says staff continued to record in the Care App that he was sleeping well and was comfortable in bed.

From BBC

Hanifa says she bought them at a pharmacy, saying she wanted sleeping pills for herself.

From BBC

One last journal entry I don’t like to watch anything in my bedroom because sleeping is a huge thing for me.

He said he had lived in France, sleeping rough, and eventually made his way to Dunkirk to try to cross to England.

From BBC

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

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