snooze
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The document itself is mostly a snooze, as these things always are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
It was over in a flash, with half a dozen songs or so, meaning for the tens of thousands of campers here it was a literal case of if you snooze, you lose.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
That may be a nice lesson to learn, but it’s a real snooze to watch.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
About all they’re hitting is the snooze button — snoozing and, on Wednesday, losing 4-1 to the Cleveland Guardians at Dodger Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
A while later, when Evie gets bored of lying there, I get her up and we go downstairs and leave Tom to snooze.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
If kids can grow out of their pretend pals, so too can horror audiences of cynical snoozes like this.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
“A lot of times he snoozes at the bottom of the water.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
In Rest Mode, the ring snoozes your activity goals and readjusts your scores to prioritize recovery.
From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2021
The artist snoozes in a piece that projects her reclining form on the wall and several standing cylinders, so that her face bends around one of the curved tubes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2019
A demon no bigger than Cocoa snoozes in a cage in a corner, and blue-glass bottles of haints rattle on a shelf in the very back.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
A family of four adults on vacation happily snoozed in their pods with eye masks on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
I snoozed, and I lost: Not only did I not snag a seat in the actual courtroom, but the media-overflow room was the most packed it’s been the entire trial.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2023
Perhaps I’m just a heavy sleeper, but I snoozed peacefully through the night, unable to hear anyone else’s snoring or late-night TikTok scrolling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023
Friendly, retriever-like Rainbow, surrendered by someone who could not care for him, snoozed in the adoption office.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
Uncle Vernon rapped the glass smartly with his knuckles, but the snake just snoozed on.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
This is especially true if there happen to be adoptable felines playing and snoozing in the shop’s showcase windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
She joked that later in life when she saw her, by now, much older husband snoozing in his chair at home, she thought Jolene "can have him now... where's Jolene when you need her?!"
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Whatever engine droning and snoozing you might remember from earlier CVT systems has been banished to the Phantom Zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Thirty years ago L.A. firefighters found children sleeping in closets and babies snoozing in dresser drawers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Now his snoozing became shallower as he heard a man and a woman speaking German in pitying tones.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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