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recliner

[ri-klahy-ner] / rɪˈklaɪ nər /


NOUN
chair
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His wife, the Rev. Raysa Vázquez, woke up every couple of hours and tended to Briany, sitting with her in the brown recliner in the living room, rocking her back to sleep.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Sitting in a recliner in his library, he’d grab green Value Line binders from a nearby desk and pore through data on publicly traded companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

These days, he’s more the “disturbed and declining grandpa who won’t leave his recliner and has us all vaguely concerned but mostly trying not to get involved.”

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2024

On June 27, 2020, the lawsuit states he kissed his wife and said he loved her before sitting in a recliner in their Castle Rock home.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 8, 2023

There’s a yellowy-orange velour couch that has a plastic cover on it and a matching orange recliner.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm




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