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Manage Stress Living with OSA can be stressful, especially if you are sleep-deprived or worried about your health.
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Sherri Gordon, Health, 18 Dec. 2025
The authors hope the findings will help educate parents about the best age to give their child a phone.
12-year-olds who own a smartphone are more likely to be depressed, overweight, and sleep-deprived compared to kids their age who don’t have one yet, according to a new study.
—Sarah Scott, Parents, 10 Dec. 2025
Many people who are sleep-deprived probably have gotten used to it.
—Terry Ward, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
Shane, sleep-deprived and guilt-ridden over Heather’s death, performs emergency surgery on Alex’s dad by himself.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Patterson’s time in the 400 meters this season never has been speedier, even if he’s sometimes sleep-deprived.
—Pat Graham, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025
His counsel described him as being beaten, sleep-deprived, and confined to overcrowded, windowless cells in the CECOT facility.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2025
Earhart was sleep-deprived, and she was worn thin from the still persistent dysentery and the long stretches without meals.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Still other studies find the cognitive benefits questionable for younger people—unless you’re stressed or sleep-deprived, states that sap your brain of creatine.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 28 May 2025
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Sherri Gordon, Health, 18 Dec. 2025
The authors hope the findings will help educate parents about the best age to give their child a phone.
12-year-olds who own a smartphone are more likely to be depressed, overweight, and sleep-deprived compared to kids their age who don’t have one yet, according to a new study.
—Sarah Scott, Parents, 10 Dec. 2025
Many people who are sleep-deprived probably have gotten used to it.
—Terry Ward, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
Shane, sleep-deprived and guilt-ridden over Heather’s death, performs emergency surgery on Alex’s dad by himself.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Patterson’s time in the 400 meters this season never has been speedier, even if he’s sometimes sleep-deprived.
—Pat Graham, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025
His counsel described him as being beaten, sleep-deprived, and confined to overcrowded, windowless cells in the CECOT facility.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2025
Earhart was sleep-deprived, and she was worn thin from the still persistent dysentery and the long stretches without meals.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Still other studies find the cognitive benefits questionable for younger people—unless you’re stressed or sleep-deprived, states that sap your brain of creatine.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 28 May 2025
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“Sleep-deprived.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleep-deprived. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.
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