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as in to relax
to sleep lightly or briefly
decided to let the kids nap for a few more minutes before waking them
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Recent Examples of nap
Julianna Bragg, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
Maintaining these simple routines and others, such as mealtimes and naps, will give your child a sense of normalcy, which helps reduce anxiety.
—Tamekia Reece, Parents, 8 Jan. 2025
Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
With cool temperatures outside, the sea-facing sun loungers beyond the Main Pool on deck 7, where glass panels drew in sunlight like a greenhouse, quickly became one of my favorite quiet spots to nap or read a book.
—Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Catch-up sleepers fall between these two groups and often rely on naps or extra weekend sleep to compensate for irregular sleeping patterns.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
Maintaining these simple routines and others, such as mealtimes and naps, will give your child a sense of normalcy, which helps reduce anxiety.
—Tamekia Reece, Parents, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
At least one family member will end up napping on the chair in the living room.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
With cool temperatures outside, the sea-facing sun loungers beyond the Main Pool on deck 7, where glass panels drew in sunlight like a greenhouse, quickly became one of my favorite quiet spots to nap or read a book.
—Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nap
Verb
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In these latter clips, Callas is kind of goofing off, relaxing, letting her hair down.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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Discover world-class shopping, indulge in exquisite food and beverages, relax in the waterfront precincts, and experience an array of events and theatre productions.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Investigators say Clarke of Inwood, New York, was first seen around 5:06 a.m. walking near a man sleeping on the sidewalk.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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For many manufacturers, the days of clipboard-wielding technicians making rounds are gone, replaced by invisible webs of sensors, algorithms and real-time analytics that never sleep.—
Raghunandan Gurumurthy,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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Athletes or those in particularly good shape often have resting pulses below that 60 threshold.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The Db Beats For Me earbuds cancel outside noise and play music and sounds synced with your brainwaves to help soothe you to slumber.—
Andrew Gebhart,
PCMAG,
10 Jan. 2025
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Volcanoes become restless and then go back to slumbering all the time.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
23 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Enjoy this video of an unbothered king snoozing in the living room.—
Cate Martel,
The Hill,
20 Jan. 2025
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The villa was also equipped with an inviting Tranquility Soaking Tub and a private patio to read a good book and take in the breeze, or snooze with a good book as Diggs did.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Shelter dog Teddy recently went viral when TikTok user Brittany Fleming posted a short clip of the dozing dog to her account, @brittanyfleming9, on November 29.—
Tim Ryan,
Newsweek,
17 Dec. 2024
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For no particular reason his half-closed eyes would suddenly open like those of a dozing lizard.—
Negar Azimi,
The New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2024
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“Nap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nap. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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