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Recent Examples of bedtime storyBut why do some kids get more bedtime stories than others?—Dalton Conley, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025 Pour the cereal, make the waffles, pack the lunch, take out the garbage; then gym, work, phone calls, emails; then dinner, a little playtime, some scrolling, baths, bedtime stories, and bed.—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025 Pardi grew up working construction and operating heavy machinery with his dad, so no wonder Presley counts Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site as a favorite bedtime story.—Nancy Kruh, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025 To further calm the restive passenger, Virgin Atlantic had Emmy-award winning actor Alan Cumming lends his legendary voice to a bedtime story.—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bedtime story
Loosely based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the film tells the tale of Benjamin Button, who is born with the appearance and strength of an elderly man and ultimately ages backward into infancy.
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Derek Scancarelli,
EW.com,
27 June 2025
From James Baldwin to Emily Henry, Atwood to Zola—AI has already consumed every novel ever written, plus all the poetry and short stories and flash fiction.
The gallery’s setting, marooned on the tiny island of Illa del Rei reached by boat from the Mahón harbor, feels cut off from reality, and is an ideal stage for her looped, surreal narratives.
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Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
There’s a dangerous narrative that refugees threaten national identity.
The last feature, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train (2020), earned $507 million at the global box office and still holds the record as the highest-grossing anime movie of all time as well as the most successful Japanese film worldwide.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
28 June 2025
For the record, the ornamental shape is composed of four partial As, the first letter in Autista, the logo spelled out in a vaguely medieval-looking font.
The challenges: Tight spaces and dense history Moving a building of this size is tough enough, but the challenge is multiplied by Zhangyuan's dense web of narrow alleys and closely packed historic buildings.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
29 June 2025
With his company, River Reader Kayaking, Hensel takes visitors on history, sunset, and nature tours along the Waccamaw River and through the Murrells Inlet marsh.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (1973) $11 The 1987 movie is universally beloved, but the funny and often brutal fairy tale is just a part of the original novel, a complex work of metafiction.
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Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
Others bring friends - or their kids (there’s even a kids programme including fairy tale readings).
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