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Recent Examples of bedtime story
Never letting work get in the way of family time, the superstar is pictured reading her babies a bedtime story.
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Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 24 July 2025
The Echo Dot Kids adds some fun with music and bedtime stories on command.
—PC Magazine, 17 July 2025
Only occasionally could my father be cajoled into telling me a bedtime story.
—Margot Singer
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
For decades, these legends were confined to bedtime stories and church sermons.
—Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 24 July 2025
The Echo Dot Kids adds some fun with music and bedtime stories on command.
—PC Magazine, 17 July 2025
Only occasionally could my father be cajoled into telling me a bedtime story.
—Margot Singer
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
For decades, these legends were confined to bedtime stories and church sermons.
—Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedtime story
Noun
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These reports became a short story and then swelled to something else.—
Michael Jerome Plunkett
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award— the world’s richest prize for a short story.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This thread count range is typically considered to be more breathable and soft, and anything above this can be made of a thinner yarn that’s less durable.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
3 Sep. 2025
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Silk flowers, floral wire, ribbon, and yarn can also be tucked into different parts of the store.—
Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Cherry-picking statistics to suit a narrative — a form of confirmation bias, as described in the commission’s view — is dangerous and undermines the diligence that should come from responsible statistical analysis.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The problem comes when ideological casting choices begin to undermine the narrative, contravening Grisham’s famously effective structure and pacing.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Even so, the £125m British-record fee received for Isak (which the club insist is actually worth £130m to them due to solidarity payments being waived) is an astronomical fee and should alleviate any concerns about the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules for several windows to come.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Former Kansas basketball forward Mitch Lightfoot, who participated in a record-setting six of coach Bill Self’s preseason boot camp conditioning programs, has offered a bit of advice to the many newcomers on the 2025-26 team.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This history lesson was not, however, the focus of the year two students, who clamored towards the phone box with Camilla in tow to try out a British tradition.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Only seven primary catchers have eclipsed 300 or more homers in MLB history.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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From Shakespearean comedies to Disney fairy tales, the sign of a life well lived is so often a woman standing by a man, vowing to obey and sealed with wedding bells.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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The design, revealed Friday on the official Disney Parks Blog, aims to better showcase the castle's architecture and pay tribute to its fairy tale roots.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Bedtime story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedtime%20story. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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