bedtime story

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Recent Examples of bedtime story This year, features examined how bedtime stories affect children's health, why Norwegian emergency helicopters occasionally pick up polar bears and the inspiration for a British country love song to the United Kingdom's National Health Service. Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025 Whether in a bedtime story, a mall or an advertisement, Santa Claus and his red suit have remained iconic fixtures of holiday culture. Aïda Amer, Axios, 25 Dec. 2024 The program assists kids snooze more soundly via a series of sleep-inducing activities like stargazing and bedtime stories. Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025 While many audio devices provided an alternative to screens, especially during daytime play, none replaced their bedtime story routines. Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bedtime story 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedtime story
Noun
  • Entries should be short stories about a group of friends on a camping trip who get stranded in the wilderness and discover a mysterious set of footprints.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • When Basil shares with him one of his wacky short stories, Peter always finds something nice to say, no matter how trivial.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In terms of trends for spring 2026, linen appeared in many collections, alone or blended with yarns such as cashmere, silk, wool and cotton.
    Andrea Onate, WWD, 10 Feb. 2025
  • There, in the middle of the room on a scatter rug, sat three yarn balls.
    Carole Wendt, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His underdog narrative, rising from micro-budget filmmaking to Academy acclaim, plays right into Hollywood’s favorite kind of success story.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Altman's comments come one day after his increasingly heated rival Musk made a shock $97.4 billion offer for OpenAI's assets, potentially changing the narrative around the technology's future.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With an audience of that size, ad prices have reached a record, with a few ad spots reportedly selling for a record $8 million and even $8 million-plus for 30 seconds.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Carl Lamarre: Quite frankly, the record is just straight heat.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Saints responded by hiring sports and entertainment advisory firm Oak View Group to help find their second naming rights partner in the history of the 50-year-old stadium.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Nyle DiMarco & Davis Guggenheim; 2024; USA; 100 min Over eight intense days in 1988, a student protest at the world’s only deaf university changed the course of history.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Both musicals are adaptations of fairy tales: the former of Hans Christian Andersen’s Danish fairy tale, the latter of L. Frank Baum’s American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Spirit helpers intervene to make things right again in this arctic fairy tale set in an Inuit community.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025

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“Bedtime story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedtime%20story. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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