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Recent Examples of bedtime story
Her grief came in the form of never learning to drive with her father, never hearing another bedtime story and only hearing his voice in videos and old voicemails the family kept.
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
Work-home conflict occurs when, for example, when a leader’s mind wanders to unfinished work tasks while reading a child their bedtime story.
—Ellen Choi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Cast member Garrett Morris, in drag, played Prince, telling young Amy a bedtime story about being a streetwise criminal.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Whether in a bedtime story, a mall or an advertisement, Santa Claus and his red suit have remained iconic fixtures of holiday culture.
—Aïda Amer, Axios, 25 Dec. 2024
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
Work-home conflict occurs when, for example, when a leader’s mind wanders to unfinished work tasks while reading a child their bedtime story.
—Ellen Choi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Cast member Garrett Morris, in drag, played Prince, telling young Amy a bedtime story about being a streetwise criminal.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Whether in a bedtime story, a mall or an advertisement, Santa Claus and his red suit have remained iconic fixtures of holiday culture.
—Aïda Amer, Axios, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedtime story
Noun
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Dunham’s imprint, Lenny Books, published a few novels and a short story collection, then folded after barely two years.—
Andy Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2025
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Hellions, Julia Elliott’s latest short story collection, is full of feral fairytales with a gothic twist.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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People were getting ‘yippy’ One of the yarns the White House has been spinning lately is that Trump won’t be moved by the stock market — that the tariff policy was too important to rehabbing America’s economy.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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Comments The White Lotus creator Mike White knows how to spin a yarn, but what the writer and director's truest talent is building an ensemble.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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Taking narratives to a whole new level, Split Fiction casts you and your significant other as Mio and Zoe, a pair of down-on-their-luck writers who become trapped in a combination of their stories (sci-fi meets fantasy) due to an accident at a groundbreaking literary tech firm.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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During a hearing on Monday, a Collin County judge set his bond at $250,000, online court records show.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2025
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But court records reveal that the HOA was lenient on this particular rule at the time and knew of other households that had chickens.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Apr. 2025
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Djokovic was on the cusp of history, going for a record seventh title in Miami and his 100th title overall, trailing only Jimmy Connors (109) and Roger Federer (103).—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2025
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Enjoys writing about archaeology, history, and environmental sciences.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2025
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So far, the fairy tale adaptation has amassed $81.9 million domestically and $181 million globally to stand as the lowest-grossing (by far) of Disney’s live-action remakes.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2025
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My grass was a bright shade of fairy tale green, the trees were budding and my tulips had bloomed.—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Bedtime story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedtime%20story. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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