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Recent Examples of bedtime story
What once struggled at the box office became a generational heirloom, passed down like a favorite bedtime story, reminding us that sincerity is not something to outgrow.
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025
Mommy has to read the bedtime story.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Dec. 2025
The bedtime story market is also getting more crowded.
—Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 14 Nov. 2025
Reading a bedtime story to your child is a tradition that goes beyond bonding time.
—Felicia Faber, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025
Mommy has to read the bedtime story.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Dec. 2025
The bedtime story market is also getting more crowded.
—Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 14 Nov. 2025
Reading a bedtime story to your child is a tradition that goes beyond bonding time.
—Felicia Faber, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedtime story
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Diamond is the fruit of a 20-year journey for Garcia who first hit on the idea for the film while helping his daughter Daniella on a homework assignment which involved writing a short story in the vein of The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
19 May 2026
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Last year's International Booker Prize went to Heart Lamp, a collection of short stories from author Banu Mushtaq about the lives of girls and women in south Indian Muslim communities.—
Ivy Buck,
NPR,
19 May 2026
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The students employed Loro Piana’s cashmere and other specialty yarns to create a modular, transformable midi dress.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
14 May 2026
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There’s this wonderful sense of a yarn being spun, of a story maestro saying, here, follow me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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The newest data fits a trend, alongside news that Chicago once again has the country’s busiest airfield and is a top tourist destination, disproving the narrative that the city is shrinking, said Erin Connelly, communication director for Mayor Brandon Johnson.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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That failure is as much a problem of form as of substance, because to break out of the apolitical bubble of personalities is also to break out of the iridescent bubble of elegant narrative.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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Text messages in court records show a brief and ambiguous exchange between McCluskie and Williamson that backs that up.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
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All three games in the series were tightly contested in a matchup between the two teams with the best records in the National League.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2026
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The island, now almost entirely owned by Oracle mogul Larry Ellison, has a rich fishing history and was once a massive pineapple plantation (Dole had its headquarters here) and served as one of the world's largest pineapple producers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 May 2026
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Jason Kidd oversaw perhaps the most chaotic stretch of basketball in Dallas Mavericks history.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
20 May 2026
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The fantasy comedy twisted the types of fairy tales that Disney was known for with cruder and sillier humor and centered a grumpy ogre journeying to save a princess.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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But the setting isn’t, say, a fairy tale village or a mermaid kingdom under the sea, to point at two Disney classics the film gives winking reference to.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
15 May 2026
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“Bedtime story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedtime%20story. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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