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drowsed

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The diary comics of interactions between stick-figure depictions of Wertz and her son, Felix, will resonate with anyone who has ever drowsed through days with a newborn.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2026

Of the 63 subjects who dropped the glass as they drowsed, 26 did so after they had already passed through N1 sleep.

From Scientific American • Apr. 3, 2022

After staying up all night at the Stork Club, Mr. Roche drowsed off midway through the early-morning interview.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2019

But as Floyd Patterson drowsed in his dressing room, his mind's eye could run over the past months�months spent partly in brooding, but mostly in dedicated training and planning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her exhaustion flowed into the hot water; she drowsed.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols