snooze

That’s no big deal if you’re going to binge movies or TV shows for hours or snooze the flight away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

About all they’re hitting is the snooze button — snoozing and, on Wednesday, losing 4-1 to the Cleveland Guardians at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

"We were not able and not willing, once again, to push the snooze button on this… it was a huge step for Germany, a huge step for the German population, definitely."

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

“It’s not like you’re sleeping in a little sleeping cube,” Shiffrin says of her snooze routine, which long ago earned her the nickname Sir Naps a Lot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Anyway, I would usually snooze through it, but it was a new day and I was turning over a new leaf, so I stayed awake.

From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds

If kids can grow out of their pretend pals, so too can horror audiences of cynical snoozes like this.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

In Rest Mode, the ring snoozes your activity goals and readjusts your scores to prioritize recovery.

From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2021

The place is so quiet that a dog snoozes at the main entrance, undisturbed.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019

The park across from the building’s front, used for decades by the public and employees for snoozes and lunches, is fenced off.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2017

A demon no bigger than Cocoa snoozes in a cage in a corner, and blue-glass bottles of haints rattle on a shelf in the very back.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

As I drove through the nondescript suburbs of Reykjavík, my mother snoozed soundly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

I snoozed, and I lost: Not only did I not snag a seat in the actual courtroom, but the media-overflow room was the most packed it’s been the entire trial.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2023

He snoozed quietly for half an hour, and then entered a more active sleep stage, his skin cycling through colors and textures used for camouflage — typical behavior for a cephalopod.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

Friendly, retriever-like Rainbow, surrendered by someone who could not care for him, snoozed in the adoption office.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023

No cars traveled the roads, no creatures howled or sniffed or chuffed, and the wind, a constant in the cornfields of Illinois, pulled in on itself and snoozed like a cat.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

This is especially true if there happen to be adoptable felines playing and snoozing in the shop’s showcase windows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Whatever engine droning and snoozing you might remember from earlier CVT systems has been banished to the Phantom Zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

We also have the means to purchase a purebred pet from a woman who raises her cats in an immaculate home, where they take turns snoozing on a blanket in front of a fireplace.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

A day after snoozing their way to the brink of elimination, the Dodgers showed they could be emotionally prepared to deal with their intense little brothers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

Three days later, with an anguished groan, Herbie chopped his first snake in two: it had been curled up on his sleeping bag, happily snoozing in the glow of his bodily warmth, when he awoke.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols