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Recent Examples of sleepover
At a recent sleepover, my 15-year-old son and his 14-year-old friend Charlie, driven by a pang of nostalgia, chose to watch the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics on YouTube.
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Luba Kassova, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
Johnson took the girls to the Dollar Tree during their sleepover.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Past trips have included behind-the-scenes tours of the New York Stock Exchange, a Smithsonian sleepover and Yellowstone National Park.
—Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
Like actual bedtime stories at a sleepover, or campfire ghost stories repeated with a flashlight under your chin, Bedtime Stories creates images that can lodge in your brain for a decade and hold up to revisits.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
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Luba Kassova, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
Johnson took the girls to the Dollar Tree during their sleepover.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Past trips have included behind-the-scenes tours of the New York Stock Exchange, a Smithsonian sleepover and Yellowstone National Park.
—Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
Like actual bedtime stories at a sleepover, or campfire ghost stories repeated with a flashlight under your chin, Bedtime Stories creates images that can lodge in your brain for a decade and hold up to revisits.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleepover
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Years later, married and with children of her own, Dean would become a mess anytime her kids rode a school bus for a field trip.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
9 May 2026
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Weekly gathering of photography enthusiasts for hands-on learning, program speakers, contests, field trips, and sharing of photography expertise.—
Staff Report,
Baltimore Sun,
6 May 2026
Noun
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The Supreme Court temporarily halted that ruling Monday, with Justice Samuel Alito issuing an administrative stay through May 11 to give the justices time to consider requests from the drugmakers to preserve nationwide access while the court weighs whether to take up the case.—
Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
8 May 2026
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The stay from the Supreme Court suspends that decision, at least temporarily.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
8 May 2026
Noun
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On my visits home, my mother might at first pretend not to notice me.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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The president’s latest barbs came just days before Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to the Vatican for a fence-mending visit.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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On the Peruvian side, travelers can visit the Uros floating islands, the artificial islets woven from totora reeds and home to communities that have lived here for centuries, then settle into a rustic homestay at Amantaní for a quieter look at life on the lake.—
Carla Vianna,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Apr. 2026
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Since launching with just one homestay in Panauti in 2012, CHN has grown to more than 200 properties in 18 communities.—
The Editors,
Outside,
18 Mar. 2026
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For Jay Li, a Chinese national who arrived in the first, 2017 class after attending the University of Rochester and working for the NBA in New York, a sojourn to Suzhou in Eastern China near Shanghai was especially illuminating.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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But unlike his mother’s visit, which came during a relatively calm period after transatlantic tensions over the Vietnam War, Charles’ sojourn to the states comes amid the most serious rift in decades between the White House and the British government.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Sleepover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepover. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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