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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
Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE following her Tuesday, Dec. 31, death at the age of 84, which AFP and Paris Match first reported, Klein revealed that the Swiss socialite, who was known for her extensive and extreme plastic surgeries, died while taking a nap.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2024
And there’s always good reason to take a cat nap during the workday.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Noun
According to Klein, Wildenstein died while taking a nap.
—Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE following her Tuesday, Dec. 31, death at the age of 84, which AFP and Paris Match first reported, Klein revealed that the Swiss socialite, who was known for her extensive and extreme plastic surgeries, died while taking a nap.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
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
And there’s always good reason to take a cat nap during the workday.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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These spaces can also serve as areas for decompression during high-stress periods or simply as a quiet place to relax.Shaun Arora, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Finding a way to relax and take your mind off football can be challenging, but Colwill uses Lego to unwind.The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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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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The flames never reached the sleeping passenger, police said.Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
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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
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Volcanoes become restless and then go back to slumbering all the time.Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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The debauchery gets cut short when the vampires struggle to slumber and realize that housekeeping swept away their ancestral dirt.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2024
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For instance, people who need the extra sleep may benefit from snoozing.Cristina Mutchler, Health, 7 Jan. 2025
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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
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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 20 Jan. 2025.
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