bed
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I probably won’t go to bed for another three hours, so I’ll just be zoning out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The only thing that really matters is whether the kid runs out the door to play, or has to be pried off the bed like a cat that hears the bathtub running.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Then I remembered that the ceiling fan has one speed at which it rattles faintly but insistently, so I got out of bed, yanked the chain and sent the blades spinning faster.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
That effort has effectively been put to bed, as Menendez concluded that Congress never intended to allow the AG to access voter records and papers that state election officials create.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
I put her to bed and then prowled the rooms with new-opened eyes, looking for Betsie’s “important things.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Last month, the agency posted a solicitation with draft contract terms seeking 5,500 detention beds in Colorado, Florida, Pennsylvania and Washington.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The investigators’ report said the fire ignited when electrical arcing on the idle line caused hot metal particles to fall into “the receptive fuel beds consisting of dry vegetation” below the tower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The cyclical freezing and thawing of soil also brings old shells to the surface, Goldammer said, much as flower beds can seem to produce fresh stones every winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Many slept on mattresses or makeshift beds outside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
I put them on their chains so they could get at the fresh straw in their houses to make soft beds and realized that I had learned something again that night.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Dockweiler RV Park was No. 13 of the 15 places they’ve bedded down since the Eaton fire destroyed their Altadena home last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
The dead are placed in a sealed vessel bedded with clover, hay and straw and equipped to regulate airflow, temperature and moisture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
His return could tilt this year's title run in City's favour, but Fabregas believes the Belgian will have to be bedded in gently.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
Kohli and Rahul bedded down for a fight thereafter but they struggled under the relentless pressure and the scoring rate fell as the paid fought to preserve wickets.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
I asked Georgia Boy one night as we bedded down, trying to arrange our netting to keep out those buzzing bloodsuckers that always seemed to find ways to get to our skin.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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Hundreds of volunteers hurried through the packed parking lot next to Bogota's largest stadium, forming human chains to pass donated water bottles, food provisions, sanitary products and bedding to the sorting area.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Tractor Supply is responding by lowering prices on some of its popular items, including pine shavings for animal bedding and premium pet-food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Light, loose sleepwear and bedding can help the body lose heat.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Criw Compostio picks up waste, as well as wood shavings from a carpentry business and used rabbit and guinea pig bedding from pet owners, twice a week.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
And she dropped her eyes and fell to twisting a bit of the bedding where a thread was loosened, and she waited patiently as one who scarcely expects an answer.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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