BEDTIME STORIES Synonyms: 25 Similar Words

bedtime stories

noun

plural of bedtime story

as in short stories

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Noun

The project is based on four short stories by Mariana Enríquez, and tells the story of Ema, a woman with the ability to see and hear the dead.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 July 2026
In many classic short stories, the real action occurs in the silences.

— Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Definition of short stories

Noun

The Child has placed his foot on the basket of yarns and has grasped the yarnwinder and gazes attentively at the four spokes that are in the form of a cross.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
The company also developed bio-sensing yarns under its miCoach ecosystem.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 July 2026

Definition of yarns

Noun

Along the narrow hallway, bookshelves burst with first editions of John Updike, battered Stephen Kings, graphic novels, dime-store paperbacks, board games, books about mythology, children’s fairy tales, and Warhammer rule sets.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
When the Italian artist Gaia Alari was a little girl, her father, Gabriele, used to read her fairy tales in the evening.

— Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

Definition of fairy tales

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Pork Soda, in particular, foreshadowed the weight of nu-metal acts like Korn, who also deployed sagging bass in service of profoundly unsettling narratives.

— Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026
Public investors are now being invited in after the restructuring worked, earnings improved, and nuclear power became one of the market’s most attractive investment narratives.

— Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of narratives

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But more than a year of his time (worth $420,000 per his contract) is unaccounted for in the public records the city has released, Thad and Riley found.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
According to the Department of Education’s own records, of 385,000 purchases made with voucher dollars, 84,000 violated the rules governing what is allowed.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of records

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