nap

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Most Silicon Valley companies at the time lavished their top engineering talent with free lunches, on-site dry cleaning, nap pods and other luxury amenities.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

I left feeling loose, calm, and very ready for a nap.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

Sometimes he’d get in a short morning nap on a couch in an office.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a five-foot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Captain Smith lay down in the boat to take a nap.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone