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Depletion Burnout Imagine a parent who once cherished bedtime stories, playful afternoons and shared laughter with their children.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the meantime, a generous weight limit of 250 pounds means parents can comfortably snuggle in for bedtime stories.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 12 Feb. 2025
However, parents can’t change the system overnight by reading bedtime stories to little ones.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 4 Feb. 2025
The warm if somewhat familiar bedtime story takes on a different dimension when it’s revealed to be a bedtime story, and the adult Orion (Colin Hanks) soon becomes a co-author and a character when his daughter begins her own yarn.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the meantime, a generous weight limit of 250 pounds means parents can comfortably snuggle in for bedtime stories.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 12 Feb. 2025
However, parents can’t change the system overnight by reading bedtime stories to little ones.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 4 Feb. 2025
The warm if somewhat familiar bedtime story takes on a different dimension when it’s revealed to be a bedtime story, and the adult Orion (Colin Hanks) soon becomes a co-author and a character when his daughter begins her own yarn.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedtime story
Noun
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Dunham’s imprint, Lenny Books, published a few novels and a short story collection, then folded after barely two years.—
Andy Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2025
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Hellions, Julia Elliott’s latest short story collection, is full of feral fairytales with a gothic twist.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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People were getting ‘yippy’ One of the yarns the White House has been spinning lately is that Trump won’t be moved by the stock market — that the tariff policy was too important to rehabbing America’s economy.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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Comments The White Lotus creator Mike White knows how to spin a yarn, but what the writer and director's truest talent is building an ensemble.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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Taking narratives to a whole new level, Split Fiction casts you and your significant other as Mio and Zoe, a pair of down-on-their-luck writers who become trapped in a combination of their stories (sci-fi meets fantasy) due to an accident at a groundbreaking literary tech firm.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Sheeran has made some pop-up appearances recently, busking in front of surprised passers-by, while also previewing tracks from the forthcoming record for tastemakers.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2025
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Pratt was arrested this January on a warrant, court records show, and has remained in the Broward County jail since.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
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Enjoys writing about archaeology, history, and environmental sciences.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2025
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Not to mention that parasitic relationships among parties with a history of are probably not a great bet for long-term stability.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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My grass was a bright shade of fairy tale green, the trees were budding and my tulips had bloomed.—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
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That would have been a fairy tale — riding off into the sunset with the best player ever to play college basketball.—
Chantel Jennings,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Bedtime story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedtime%20story. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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