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Recent Examples of snooze
Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Teddy Altman and Andrew Perkins For two hot people, this relationship sure is a snooze.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2025
With Kyle snoozing on the floor, Payton, now 18 months, picked up his phone to start playing with the buttons, only to capture a hilarious clip of her dad asleep.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
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Noun
Those in Japan used snooze alarms the least (2.2 times) with the least snooze sleep (9.2 minutes).
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Teddy Altman and Andrew Perkins For two hot people, this relationship sure is a snooze.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Verb
In fact, around 55.6 percent of sleep sessions concluded with snooze alarms, with the average sleeper spending 10.8 minutes snoozing after their initial alarm.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2025
With Kyle snoozing on the floor, Payton, now 18 months, picked up his phone to start playing with the buttons, only to capture a hilarious clip of her dad asleep.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snooze
Noun
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Parks aren’t profitable, museums are empty, and the fine citizens of DUMBO just honk their horns at each other when a massive herbivore escapes from the zoo for a nap under the Brooklyn Bridge.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 June 2025
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Many of them could relate to our results with a personal experience of having a (creative) breakthrough after a nap.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Inside, everything is slow, wispy, a soothing yawn of a life.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
11 June 2025
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There’s a moment in the episode, where Cooper yawns, which was not in the script, and Doherty comes back with a perfect line.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
11 June 2025
Verb
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Make as much noise as possible to try and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from sleeping and force them elsewhere.—
Victoria Valenzuela,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
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One 2024 meta-analysis, for example, found that all manner of sensory experiences—including sounds, smells, flashing lights, physical pressure, and pain—can be incorporated into dreams when people are sleeping and investigators provide the stimulus.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
1 July 2025
Noun
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Just the sheer, cavernous size of each cylinder – at 38 inches (97 cm) of bore by 98 inches (249 cm) of stroke ...—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 June 2025
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The only problem was that Purdey had never made a hammer ejector gun in 28 gauge, or any hammer gun in .410 bore in their more than 200-year history.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Leaner cuts also reduce fat drips and flame flare-ups, which can contribute to carcinogen formation.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
Verywell Health,
3 July 2025
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With companies going where liquidity is abundant, a steady drip of firms being taken private, and too few initial public offerings coming along to replace them, pressure is mounting to reverse the slow but inexorable shrinking of London’s historic trading venue.—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
3 July 2025
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“Snooze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snooze. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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