slept

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O’Brien makes no mention of apartheid or his time in South Africa in his book While America Slept.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2019

Slept on a cot in his office to make a point about how Janesville, Wisconsin and not Washington, D.C. was his real home?

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2019

Rip Van Tinkle: Slept for two whole decades, but had to get up every couple years to pee.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2019

Tracey Emin’s “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995” was one of the works destroyed in the fire.

From Economist • May 10, 2018

Slept more than 24 hours, flat out, which is just as well because that was the day when the farm was simply crawling with German soldiers.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein