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Recent Examples of bedtime story
As a bedtime story, Demerzel tells Day of her past names, like Chetter, Daneel, and Eto.
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Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
It’s designed for deeper, more natural exchanges, whether that’s cooking with whatever’s in your fridge, troubleshooting why the dishwasher won’t drain or spinning up a personalized bedtime story.
—Paul Lamkin, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
In Brady’s eyes, bedtime stories and homework help are meaningful, but so is modeling commitment, resilience, and work ethic.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2025
Our store started as a bedtime story one night when my son was a toddler who couldn't sleep.
—American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 7 June 2025
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Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
It’s designed for deeper, more natural exchanges, whether that’s cooking with whatever’s in your fridge, troubleshooting why the dishwasher won’t drain or spinning up a personalized bedtime story.
—Paul Lamkin, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
In Brady’s eyes, bedtime stories and homework help are meaningful, but so is modeling commitment, resilience, and work ethic.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2025
Our store started as a bedtime story one night when my son was a toddler who couldn't sleep.
—American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedtime story
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Andrzej Sapkowski’s first two Witcher books, both short story collections, are marvelously varied in tone and content, presenting a smorgasbord of standalone Geralt adventures that alternate between the comic and tragic.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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The killer Charles Starkweather, the short stories of Flannery O’Connor, Charles Laughton’s sole cinematic offering, The Night of the Hunter (1955), Terrance Malick’s debut film, Badlands (1973), and Springsteen’s own emotionally fraught childhood each served as inspiration and influence.—
Richard Newby,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
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Herodotus recruits evidence from passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey to show that Homer himself knew at least fragments of this tale yet opted to tell another, better yarn.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Sethi said that one of the things that appealed to REI was the quality of some of the yarns Ambercycle had been experimenting with for applications such as technical outerwear and performance laminates.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
28 Oct. 2025
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Barton’s story bears a striking resemblance to the narrative outlined in Corcoran’s legal claim and suggests the franchise was enjoying demonstrable success at a time that could be critical to determining if and how much she is owed.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
31 Oct. 2025
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Thompson turned to Preston Mui, a senior economist at Employ America, for a sector-by-sector breakdown of job openings since ChatGPT’s release, and the findings actually contradicted the AI narrative.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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As recently as last Tuesday, Argentina’s peso had slumped to a record low, and its bonds were selling off as traders prepared for the weekend election.—
Daniel Flatley,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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Shalom restricted access to the pond afterward, records show.—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Jacksonville businesses of all kinds have been affected by the downstream effects of the second-longest government shutdown in history, including Chicken Country, a restaurant that has provided the area with Southern cooking for about 50 years.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Oct. 2025
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In her exhaustive chronicle, Jennings traces the long folkloric history of monk-tormenting demons.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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This is the plot of a modern fairy tale written by Marina Warner in 2005.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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One of last year’s breakout comedies returns with the next chapter in the classic fairy tale about a romance between a rabbi and a podcaster.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Bedtime story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedtime%20story. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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