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“He should not have been hibernating for 20 years.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2022

"If anybody is completely surprised by this, I think they have been hibernating," said Peter Schaffrik, head of European interest rate strategy at Royal Bank of Canada.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2013

Creatures who should have been hibernating deep underground had been roused by that vicious weather.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

The familiar yellow wasps, which have been hibernating during the cold weather, emerge from their hiding-places and begin to construct their umbrella-shaped nests or combs, which look as if they were made of rice-paper.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

"Well, then, she must have been hibernating, or something, when she first came out, for she has begun to talk now with a vengeance," Mrs. Guthrie Brimston answered smartly.

From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah