slept
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O’Brien makes no mention of apartheid or his time in South Africa in his book While America Slept.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2019
Slept on a cot in his office to make a point about how Janesville, Wisconsin and not Washington, D.C. was his real home?
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2019
Rip Van Tinkle: Slept for two whole decades, but had to get up every couple years to pee.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2019
Tracey Emin’s “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995” was one of the works destroyed in the fire.
From Economist • May 10, 2018
Slept the night through once or twice, put back some of the weight she’d lost in the attic.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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