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Recent Examples of snoozersThis 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
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.
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Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Anyone who thinks English Heritage sites are run by bores is in for a surprise.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Sep. 2025