slept
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Next to the armed housewife is And All the While the Benevolent Slept, a 2008 sculpture by Bharti Kher that depicts the self-decapitated goddess Chinnamasta in the bronze-cast guise of one of Kher’s own friends.
From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2020
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 but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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