bedtime story

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Recent Examples of bedtime story The Calm app also has bedtime stories, sometimes read by celebrities such as Matthew McConaughey. Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024 Voice Assistant featuring the voices of Disney characters, customizable voices, and things like homework help, bedtime stories, and more. Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024 The script started as a bedtime story Producer and co-writer David Kirschner told the story to his daughters and made it into a film. Andrea Wurzburger, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024 After Sam begs Amelia to read him a mysterious bedtime story, a nightmarish demon spawn is unleashed upon their household, which only deepens the rift between mother and son. Jack Dunn, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bedtime story 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedtime story
Noun
  • Like many people, the novelist Garth Risk Hallberg was daunted by the size of the celebrated American writer Joyce Carol Oates’s body of work, which encompasses dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The show, which features readings of short stories, brought in close to $1.7 million at the Hudson Theatre and played to 100 percent capacity, with an average ticket price of $215, the highest in the industry for the week.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In October, the group dyed their own yarn in the kitchen of the First Baptist Church of Overland Park, which usually hosts the evening meetings.
    Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Rough and tactile linen yarns are also ubiquitous, as in Botto Giuseppe’s Petalo blend of mélange linen and slubbed silk with a bright texture, or in Lanificio dell’Olivo’s Scoop Lighting full linen yarn dyed according to the lessivé technique.
    Martino Carrera, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • However, now the scandal has spread out of Britain to U.S. staff and American publications, the pro-Meghan narrative no longer contains a baked in explanation for the existence of the anti-Meghan perspective.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • However, as institutional players co-opt its narrative, its fundamental properties are threatened.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With his collection of accolades and records that span 10 Gold Glove awards, three Silver Slugger awards and two American League batting titles, many baseball fans had assumed that Ichiro would easily clinch 100% of the vote.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The district attorney said his team is reviewing thousands of pages of prison records, court documents and transcripts from the trials to reach a decision on the resentencing and a habeas petition the brothers filed in 2023 to overturn their convictions based on the discovery of new evidence.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With most of the top names off the board, the Blue Jays could opt for an affordable veteran with a history of success over a younger star like Jack Flaherty.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And if a patient has a history of anxiety, their provider will typically be even quicker to assume that physical symptoms are a recurrence, rather than a sign of something new.
    Angela Haupt, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Also highlighted is Wrong Husband by Zacharias Kunuk, which transports viewers to a mystical world in the Canadian Arctic, where human and spirit realms collide in a fairy tale about young love.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In contrast to, say, the Frank Langella movie, which is also based on a play, the Lugosi version felt more like a fairy tale.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Bedtime story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedtime%20story. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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