beds 1 of 2

Definition of bedsnext
plural of bed
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as in floors
the surface upon which a body of water lies some prospectors supposedly found gold in the bed of that mountain stream

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beds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bed

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Recent Examples of beds
Noun
Rooms come with rainfall showerheads or soaking tubs, mini cheesecakes by the beds each night, and iPads with software for making quick reservations. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026 Heavy landscaping with trees and planting beds are also seen in renderings adjacent to the interchange. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026 But although treatment beds are being added daily, facilities still lack enough staff and partners to operate them. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 Like Adidas, New Balance has foam foot beds and other high-tech comfort design features. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 In an August earnings call for the private prison company GEO Group — one of ICE's main contractors — an investor asked CEO George Zoley whether ICE was still aiming to reach 100,000 operational beds. — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026 As Atari wrapped up his tour, the day’s heat was chasing the Ostrich Army out of their beds to go and greet the reinforcements who were trickling in. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026 The new constructions added nearly 3,000 beds to the state’s capacity for those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 With beds for ten, this former 1860s church sets the stage for an atmospheric fall trip with friends. — Madeline Weinfield, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
The character is an adult who drinks, wears impeccable clothing, and beds women—the familiar Bond tropes. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026 That includes throw rugs, sheets, blankets, pillow covers, and beds your pet uses, says Bryant. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 May 2026 His lyrics detail a process of active healing, gesturing at a contentedness that beds in as your 20 begin to wane. — Liam Inscoe-Jones, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026 But Friedenbach does credit the mayor's approach to drug treatment, calling the expansion of treatment beds a positive step, including the opening of five hundred new shelter and recovery beds specifically designed to help people get essential drug treatment. — Ryan Yamamoto, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025 Bedsure Teddy Fleece Throw Blanket Give sofas or beds a cozy upgrade with this teddy fleece throw blanket that's available in a slew of colors, including festive hues like red and olive green. — Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2025 Beds that are completely mixed won’t have the impact that beds of one or two or three complementary colors will have. — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025 But none of those operations could match the location and the great fishing off the Point Loma kelp beds that the Point Loma called home. — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beds
Noun
  • Private rooms, mattresses, candles, eye masks, and custom playlists.
    — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Cans, water containers, mattresses and crosses - seeming evidence of the home's former Christian occupants — lay scattered across a dirty room.
    — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The four-bedroom’s great room includes 19-foot wood ceilings, stone floors, and glass walls.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Dilute hydrogen peroxide with water to safely clean vinyl, porcelain, and ceramic tile floors.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • SpaceX already retires aging Starlink satellites by burning them up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
  • New products, markets, channels and customer exceptions can accumulate faster than your organization retires old ones.
    — Basant Singh, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • However, her performance soon takes on a more grounded, childlike cadence, which roots the supposedly amnesiac Margot a little too firmly within the literal, especially for a tale whose poetry lies in its uncanniness.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, Nowell roots the band’s sound in the mid-’90s and keeps his vocal mannerisms as close to Bradley’s as possible.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Although my room had six bunks, my only roommate was a quiet man from Switzerland who was also traveling from LA to San Francisco, but by bike.
    — David G. Allan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Two-thirds of the building had been converted into sleeping barracks, with double-decker bunks crowded one against the other.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Designers showed their Spring/Summer 2027 collections, emphasizing minimalism, transparency, bursts of lime and marigold and warm-weather silhouettes like culotte and capri bottoms.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Turns out, though, what actually happened is that Nike offered the women about 20 different combinations of a uniform — with tops and bottoms of various lengths.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This carrier has been a lifesaver with our five-month-old daughter, who naps almost exclusively in it.
    — The Editors, Outside, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Their work lodges itself into the psyche like a sliver of wood thrust beneath a fingernail.
    — Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Great music is memorable, but cinematic music lodges deep in our brain, the sounds and images tracking forever in unison.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026

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“Beds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beds. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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