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The excitement and raucous din may lessen Trump’s propensity to nod off in public.—Greg Cote
june 7, Miami Herald, 7 June 2026 At one point, cameras appeared to catch the Jets’ head coach, Aaron Glenn, nodding off.—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Now the image is body-cam footage of a puffy-eyed 50-year-old man hiccupping and nodding off in the back of a police car after another DUI arrest.—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026 Toward the end of the performance sequence, editor Adam Biskupski cuts between the Vanguard stage and 25-year-old LaFaro nodding off at the wheel of his car less than a month later.—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nod off