sleeping

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Bass has credited her Inside Safe program, which cleans encampments and moves people into motel rooms, for driving the recent decline in street sleeping.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

At that time, there was only one boat a month, and the journey took up to six days without any air conditioning, while passengers today can pay for more comfortable sleeping cabins.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

“You feel like hell all the time. Dead on your feet, not sleeping well, just an awful feeling,” he said in a 2021 interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Granada Hills baseball coach Matt Matuszak has spent each night this week sleeping on a couch in the hospital after his wife gave birth to the family’s first child, a girl.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

He made sleeping mats stuffed with rustling palm fronds, a table and two stools, a desk, bookcases and shelves for his science stuff, coconut-shell bowls, and seashell plates.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr