cot

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Marfisee and her students walked through the surrounding neighborhood, went cot to cot in the women’s dorm and held two informational sessions in December and January to answer patients’ questions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

The law caught him: “a slot open, a cot waiting” in jail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Jess had to move Junior into a metal toddler bed after he started eating his wooden cot, but this meant he could get out in the night and he chewed his door frame.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Jake, nestled into his sleeping bag on a cot underneath the museum's gigantic suspended model of a blue whale, said he was "so happy to be here."

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

He walked over to the stripped cot, which had been propped on its side and pushed out of the way.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros