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Observe thousand people in bed (7)

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I believe the answer is:

comment

'observe' is the definition.
(commenting is a kind of observing)

'thousand people in bed' is the wordplay.
'thousand' becomes 'm' (Roman numeral for a thousand).
'people' becomes 'men' (men are people).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bed' becomes 'cot' (cot is a kind of bed).
'm'+'men'='mmen'
'mmen' going within 'cot' is 'COMMENT'.

(Other definitions for comment that I've seen before include "Leader writer's forte" , "offer opinion" , "observation" , "Nancy's version of how" , "Explanatory note" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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