as in sleep
a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself
a toddler looking so innocent and peaceful in slumber
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Recent Examples of slumber
Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Analysts at Wolfe Research believe the popular messaging app is starting to be awoken from its slumber.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Trees and vegetation are always slumbering, helpless at the woodman’s axe or the casual munching of a ruminant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Sleep is of great importance to overall health, but many people struggle to get quality slumber.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Analysts at Wolfe Research believe the popular messaging app is starting to be awoken from its slumber.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
The sugar beast inside me, slumbering peacefully since the previous day’s cinnamon kill, sprang awake.
—Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Trees and vegetation are always slumbering, helpless at the woodman’s axe or the casual munching of a ruminant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slumber
Noun
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In a three-part video series, Sleep Training for Grown-Ups, Paltrow chats with sleep physician and research scientist Cheri D. Mah, MD, to raise awareness around getting a good night’s rest and how to enhance the sleep experience.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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Night lights, a hallway light that stays on, light that comes in through the window can disturb your sleep.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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And as the sun begins to rise, Kuber Sancho-Persad, who lives a few doors down, is napping in his taxi in the Kennedy Airport parking lot, waiting for the first passengers of the day to arrive with the early morning flights.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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In one set of images, workers nap while still wearing their uniforms, while another shows the workers, still in their uniforms, in dancerly poses out on the streets.—
Silvia Benedetti,
ARTnews.com,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Always ensure your criticisms rest on solid research and offer constructive paths forward.—
Jay Ruderman,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Pope, 88, left the hospital on March 23 following a 38-day stay and has been advised to rest, with King Charles and Queen Camilla sending him their best wishes.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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If that wing was being used, there would be more beds upstairs.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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The team’s biggest concerns for 390’s recovery since July has been that the growth bed would be too damaged for the keratin to regrow and that the bone that supports the entire structure of the upper beak may have too much missing and grow back together.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Slumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slumber. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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