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as in to nap
to sleep lightly or briefly
she dozed fitfully in the car but never fell completely asleep
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Recent Examples of doze
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Feb. 2026
By the evening’s end, I was cuddled up on the couch in a pile of kids, a movie playing while the little ones started to doze.
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Monitor Contributors,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 Nov. 2025
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
1 Apr. 2026
She gets literally tucked in, waking up cozy to the sound of rain on the slanted roof and dozing only to wake again to the bright morning sun.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Our thought was probably somebody was going to just want to come in and doze it all down and do something different.
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Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Feb. 2026
By the evening’s end, I was cuddled up on the couch in a pile of kids, a movie playing while the little ones started to doze.
—
Monitor Contributors,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 Nov. 2025
Verb
People sleep with earplugs for many reasons, like excessive city noise, loud neighbors, or even a snoring partner dozing next to them.
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Sherri Gordon,
Health,
1 Apr. 2026
She gets literally tucked in, waking up cozy to the sound of rain on the slanted roof and dozing only to wake again to the bright morning sun.
—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doze
Noun
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Sereed Toddler Balance Bike Say goodbye to your little one fighting nap time.
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Or at least squeezed in a solid couch nap with baseball/golf/soccer/primo history programming murmuring in the background.
Verb
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The engineer flew in from Tampa to try and find her mother, sister, brother-in-law and nephew in the ruins of their nine-story apartment building, sleeping on the ground since arriving two nights ago.
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One couple slept on the grass with umbrellas over their heads and just two thin blankets for cover on what turned out to be a cooler night than expected following a London heatwave where temperatures soared to 95 degrees.
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Marcy Park is a place where families, pets, and Highlands Ranch residents go to relax, and where Laura Nelson saw an opportunity to engage with her community.
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One of its earliest central promises was to relax Howard’s gun laws.
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In a third photo, Justin rested his chin on Jack's shoulder while holding him with one arm.
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All locomotion modes are limited by the metabolic scopes of organisms—the ratio between peak exertion and resting (or basal) metabolic rate.
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“Doze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doze. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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