snooze button
noun
: a button on an alarm clock that stops and resets the alarm for a short time later to allow for more rest
called also snooze alarm
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Hitting the snooze button?
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USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
Just don’t hit the snooze button on these sales—they’re only around for a few more hours.
—Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 17 July 2024
Hitting the snooze button for increments of nine minutes of sleep at a time does the same thing, said Dr. Brandon Peters, a neurologist and sleep medicine physician with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 28 June 2024
Thirty-one such chronic snoozers who were observed in the study slept well throughout the night and showed signs of fragmented sleep only in the last 30 minutes before getting up, which is typically around the time when people first hit the snooze button.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2023
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USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
Just don’t hit the snooze button on these sales—they’re only around for a few more hours.
—Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 17 July 2024
Hitting the snooze button for increments of nine minutes of sleep at a time does the same thing, said Dr. Brandon Peters, a neurologist and sleep medicine physician with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 28 June 2024
Thirty-one such chronic snoozers who were observed in the study slept well throughout the night and showed signs of fragmented sleep only in the last 30 minutes before getting up, which is typically around the time when people first hit the snooze button.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2023
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“Snooze button.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snooze%20button. Accessed 15 Sep. 2024.
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