slumbering

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Slumbering among thousands of bacterial strains in a collection of natural specimens at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, several fragile vials held something unexpected, and possibly very useful.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

Slumbering with a pet “may help out with anxiety and depression, because a dog is like a weighted blanket — it gives you that snuggling and cuddling effect,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2021

Slumbering with a pet “may help out with anxiety and depression, because a dog is like a weighted blanket. It gives you that snuggling and cuddling effect,” he said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021

KILIS, Turkey — Slumbering amid olive and pistachio groves on a hot plain near the Syrian border, Kilis, Turkey, was for many decades a quiet backwater, surviving, but hardly prospering, on cross-border trade and smuggling.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

See the hero whom it gave us Slumbering on a mother's breast; For the arm he stretched to save us Be its morn forever blest!

From Washington's Birthday by Schauffler, Robert Haven