- present participle of sleep.
sleeping
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All of this exercise also helped my stress levels, especially in respect of sleeping.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Josimar Medina, a 31-year-old Peruvian who was holidaying in Spain with his girlfriend, said he was sleeping on the Renfe train when "I woke up and I was in the air."
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
To study the spiders' sleeping behavior, the team placed individual Portia fimbriata spiders in plastic dishes measuring 12 centimeters in diameter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Cole often tells the story of sleeping on an air mattress with his wife, Emily, in a ramshackle garage apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
“I would be home in between classes, and you would be sleeping all day, and the walls up here are so thin,” he says.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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