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as in mattress
a place set aside for sleeping
the sofa in the living room will be your bed for the night
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as in sleep
a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself
I always brush my teeth and floss before going to bed
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as in to retire
to go to one's bed in order to sleep
the campers all bedded down for the night around 9:00 p.m.
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as in to lodge
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
a walkway of flagstones firmly bedded in the earth
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Recent Examples of bed
Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 20 Dec. 2025
At least one showed a small girl with her hair tied back, her face shadowed, laying in bed, nude.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2026
Right now, the outlet is filled with after-Christmas deals on bedding, furniture, decor, and storage solutions, and many of our top picks are at their lowest prices of the year.
—Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
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Noun
The county is paying $64 million to build a homeless shelter with 275 beds and 75 beds of weather respite.
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Fortunately, Pottery Barn has nearly 200 bedding deals on offer in its clearance section right now.
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Professionals can life extremely stubborn stains with their professional equipment to get your mattress clean and safe to sleep on once again.—
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In Benghazi’s Ganfuda Detention Center, dozens of young women and girls crowd the floor of a warehouse strewn with foam mattresses and the plastic-bag detritus of an itinerant life.—
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The individuals were then spotted by security cameras attempting to leave through an emergency exit door while carrying numerous bags, before suddenly pivoting toward a flight of stairs and running up to the floor above.—
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Conceived as a modern tropical mansion visible to drivers crossing the causeway that connects Miami Beach to Miami, the house stood out for its tall columns flanked by nearly transparent white curtains from ceiling to floor, opening panoramically to the pool and Biscayne Bay.—
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As well as testing the various systems on board, the crew will be test subjects themselves, helping Nasa understand the effects that space travel has on their cognition, sleep, stress, immune responses and cardiovascular health.—
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Green tea, for example, is high in caffeine and may disrupt sleep.—
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Instead, the program will change where the sales tax dollars go — redirecting dollars that would have otherwise been added to the state’s general fund to pay for highways, schools and other services to pay off the project’s debt and retire the bonds.—
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Trent is a high school administrator, while Cheryl, now retired, spent her career as a juvenile probation officer, per Yahoo!—
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Though town officials tried to push other activities, such as snowmobiling, ice skating and snowshoeing, lodging bookings plummeted in the wake of the resort’s closure.—
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The bullet had been lodged in Kavita's leg for 20 years.—
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If your couch covers are removable, add them to the load or the next.—
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Meanwhile, a bloodied Siebenaller sat silently on the couch nearby, the affidavit alleges.—
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.—
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Butter crocks are designed with an air-tight seal and a separate space to store water at the bottom that prevents air from reaching the butter, which can lead to spoiling.—
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Science has much more to learn about the relationships between napping and health in older adulthood, when daytime napping becomes more common.—
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From a dog's busy napping schedule while the owner is at work to a cat and canine's vastly different reactions to meeting and all the best canine costumes at the Halloween parade, it's been a spirited week in the pet world.—
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“Bed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bed. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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