repose
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When our granddaughter Raleigh, then 2, met Doc, he was in his bed in the kitchen, one of his five places of repose around our house.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
While her maybe-beau stays forced in repose, Iris cycles through all the different types of women she could be.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025
Fresh and green are the pastures where he gives me repose.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025
Death, she often said, was waiting to snatch her from her work, and so she kept her hours of repose as brief and businesslike as possible.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing repose
The Great Gatsby
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