pacifier

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Occasional weird inventions are folded in: a “hambulance” delivering ham; food trucks selling potato ice cream and soup on a stick; something called Pacifier Shirt Syndrome, caused by rubbing a dropped pacifier on a short.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

While Kindergarten Cop has a forgivable 50% rating on review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, both The Pacifier and Playing With Fire score just 21%.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2020

The American Pacifier thesis is a plausible causal explanation for an empirical reality: the world really is more peaceful and more stable.

From Time • Jan. 14, 2017

A federal judge in Oklahoma reached the same conclusion in an Operation Pacifier case there, and similar motions are pending in dozens of other cases.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2016

As a reward for these Page 183achievements Yao canonized Shên I with the title of Marquis Pacifier of the Country.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)