as in to snort
to inhale and exhale noisily while sleeping
My husband snores and it keeps me up all night.
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Recent Examples of snore
The software is in turn able to identify six healthy, sub-healthy and unhealthy sleep states including nasal breathing, mouth breathing, snoring, teeth grinding, central sleep apnea and obstructive sleep apnea.
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025
And more than 130 people said their therapist fell asleep during therapy — sometimes going so far as to start drooling or snoring.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Dogs can be disruptive during sleep, with movements or snoring that may affect your quality of rest.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Some common reasons include snoring, restlessness, parasomnia, frequent trips to the bathroom or incompatible sleep schedules.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025
And more than 130 people said their therapist fell asleep during therapy — sometimes going so far as to start drooling or snoring.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Dogs can be disruptive during sleep, with movements or snoring that may affect your quality of rest.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Some common reasons include snoring, restlessness, parasomnia, frequent trips to the bathroom or incompatible sleep schedules.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snore
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Odell orders Griff to prepare him a still-purple unicorn steak (the rarest of delicacies, in every sense), while ex-addict Shepard simply can’t resist snorting the powder obtained from grinding the coveted horn.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2025
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Third, something large was growling and snorting at me inside the lodge.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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Fey and Forte play a couple who have to sniff out which of their other married pals are on the brink of divorce across four vacations.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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At the roundtable, where contestants try to sniff out and eliminate traitors, Reyes was gunning for Windey as cover for her own season-long deceit.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
7 Mar. 2025
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Somehow, amid all these disconnected threads, Sheridan can have a moment in his narrative that purely breathes, where nothing much happens except that most important of things: an exchange of ideas.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
16 Mar. 2025
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The male also told the dispatcher that the woman was not breathing.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Snore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snore. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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