sleeper
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"All it means is that I get home later in the evening, meaning early in the morning. And I'm not a big sleeper anyway."
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Good work, however, won’t be denied, even if Broadway producers have perhaps overlearned the lesson of last year’s sleeper, Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Therefore, as the June 23 primary date approaches, the race could be a sleeper to watch.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Teo was a good sleeper and she enjoyed the days spent caring for her baby son while on maternity leave.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
We washed and folded each shirt, each jumpsuit, each sleeper.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
These alarm clocks have novel ways to rouse deep sleepers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
London has the highest number of rough sleepers -1,277 - but the rate of rough sleeping rose steepest year-on-year in the north east of England, where numbers increased by 31% to 162.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
Probably that’s what woke the residential sleepers, who got up next.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
Overhead the ironwork brown with rust, the hammered rivets, the wooden sleepers and crossplanks.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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