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- noun Plural form of
napper .
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Examples
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When Sara Mednick, a former Harvard researcher, gave her subjects a memory challenge, she allowed half of them to take a 60-to-90 minute nap, the nappers dramatically outperformed the non-nappers.
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps Tony Schwartz 2010
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When Sara Mednick, a former Harvard researcher, gave her subjects a memory challenge, she allowed half of them to take a 60-to-90 minute nap, the nappers dramatically outperformed the non-nappers.
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps Tony Schwartz 2010
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While each subset would need its own targeted themes -- for non-nappers, focusing on the reasons why they should and the lack of time and effort required to do so; for long nappers, strategies to limit sleep and suggestions for nap locations other than bed -- the key message was the same: take naps, get better grades.
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Benches are much-appreciated commodity in anyone's eye, and of course there were many monopolizing nappers.
Fang Wu: Not So "World-ly" Expo 2010 Fang Wu 2010
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That told the educators that a napping campaign would have to address two distinct populations: non-nappers and long nappers.
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That told the educators that a napping campaign would have to address two distinct populations: non-nappers and long nappers.
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When Sara Mednick, a former Harvard researcher, gave her subjects a memory challenge, she allowed half of them to take a 60-to-90 minute nap, the nappers dramatically outperformed the non-nappers.
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps Tony Schwartz 2010
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While each subset would need its own targeted themes -- for non-nappers, focusing on the reasons why they should and the lack of time and effort required to do so; for long nappers, strategies to limit sleep and suggestions for nap locations other than bed -- the key message was the same: take naps, get better grades.
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But one Buenos Aires hotel, the appropriately-named Selfishness Hotel, is catering exclusively to business types who also happen to be power nappers.
Selfishness Siesta Hotel In Buenos Aires Caters To Cat Nappers (VIDEO) 2010
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Singing her brontosaurus song in a louder and louder voice, Lulu was waking up nappers all over the forest.
Lulu and the Brontosaurus Judith Viorst 2010
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