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Recent Examples of snoozers
Almost half of participants hit snooze on more than 80 percent of days, with heavy snoozers spending an average of 20 extra minutes in bed each morning.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
This improved the snoozers’ ability to learn new information for the rest of the day, as their brain’s synapses were no longer as saturated.
—Hunter Boyce, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026
In the frenzied minutes after Major League Baseball’s July 31 trade deadline, three of us writers at The Athletic filed our annual list of winners, losers and snoozers.
—Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
This improved the snoozers’ ability to learn new information for the rest of the day, as their brain’s synapses were no longer as saturated.
—Hunter Boyce, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026
In the frenzied minutes after Major League Baseball’s July 31 trade deadline, three of us writers at The Athletic filed our annual list of winners, losers and snoozers.
—Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snoozers
Noun
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Some resorts in the Mamanuca Islands are set to lose entire wings to the sea in the coming years, and drinking water in villages is already being infiltrated by salt from seawater seeping into ground bores.—
MIchelle Duff,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
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Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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With that indelible Southern gift for pulling new lingo from thin air, the duo deploy yawns that stretch like bungee over Zaytoven-type keys.—
Olivier Lafontant,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
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The oohs and aahs over a 100-mph pitch have been replaced by yawns.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Put a tray or a sheet of foil underneath casseroles, desserts, and other dishes to catch drips and spills.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
14 May 2026
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And liquid cheese drips over the side of a stout little fish nugget accompanied by Sichuan pickle tartar sauce.—
Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
13 May 2026
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“Snoozers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snoozers. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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