snooze
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That’s no big deal if you’re going to binge movies or TV shows for hours or snooze the flight away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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
"We were not able and not willing, once again, to push the snooze button on this… it was a huge step for Germany, a huge step for the German population, definitely."
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Enough people have watched these movies — or let them autoplay as they snooze on the couch — that Netflix believes films like “The Rip” are truly what their audiences want.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
“Ciao, fulletta,” he said, before climbing into his father’s lap to continue his snooze.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
In Rest Mode, the ring snoozes your activity goals and readjusts your scores to prioritize recovery.
From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2021
The place is so quiet that a dog snoozes at the main entrance, undisturbed.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
The park across from the building’s front, used for decades by the public and employees for snoozes and lunches, is fenced off.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2017
He still doesn’t say anything, but he snuggles up next to me by the fireplace and we take long cozy snoozes together.
From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe
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
The bear snoozed on a thick limb before finally dropping to the ground by early afternoon Sunday.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
While our parents snoozed and the cicadas chirped outside, my siblings and I closed the shutters and parked ourselves in front of the box.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Their two turkeys were sitting on the ground under the roosting chickens, getting shat upon as they snoozed.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
It was 8:30 a.m., and most of the ship’s 4,000 passengers were still snoozing or filling their plates at the breakfast buffet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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
Semi-feral, Pebbles now prefers snoozing in the library to hunting, the university said.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
So, there I was, watching Keoghan as an Oxford student named Oliver become one with the soil, my mother snoozing beside me.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
“The moment we took off I was almost snoozing away,” said Larisa.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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