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The feature story paints a depressing and chaotic image of the neighborhood: on a rainy day beneath an underpass on Kensington Avenue, drug users trying to stay dry were injecting in public, nodding off on sidewalks glistening from the rain.
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Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
Take the monorail for example, which is when your cat nods off while sitting atop a higher perch, perhaps the back of your couch.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
The clinic was widely known to have problems; patients often nodded off, experienced behavioral problems or showed other signs of opioid use disorder in the lobby of the busy practice, according to Hoffberg’s declaration.
—Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
The Dead, in their original incarnation, died a few times, or at least nodded off.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
Take the monorail for example, which is when your cat nods off while sitting atop a higher perch, perhaps the back of your couch.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
The clinic was widely known to have problems; patients often nodded off, experienced behavioral problems or showed other signs of opioid use disorder in the lobby of the busy practice, according to Hoffberg’s declaration.
—Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
The Dead, in their original incarnation, died a few times, or at least nodded off.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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“Nod off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nod%20off. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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