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Our daughter will be asleep in the other room.

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Word of the ceasefire came early Thursday morning in Gaza, as Mohammad Rajab, 62, was still asleep.

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You are supposed to fall asleep on the couch, then wake up and wonder if it’s Sunday or Thursday.

“We have been asleep at the regulatory switch…putting the system at risk,” Marc Rowan, Apollo’s chief executive, told investors on a call in February.

"While I'm eating spaghetti or asleep, the book is still busy," is how he describes it.

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

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