pacifier
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And it turns out there’s an ingenious, inexpensive little invention that combines the pacifier with the medicine syringe.
From Slate ● May 17, 2026
“Was just reading today that newborns will suck on a pacifier more vigorously if it triggers playback of a recording of her/his mother’s voice than another woman’s voice,” Tramo wrote to Epstein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
A modified pacifier and AI algorithms to analyze the data it produces could determine if newborns are learning the proper mechanics of nursing, a recent study shows.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
About a third of the kiddos in most classes at the two Seattle area high schools where I teach have just checked out and use them as a pacifier.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
A woman hushed a fretful baby with a pacifier.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Plastic is used in all kinds of things, and it is not controversial at all to say that the amount of mercury in, say, pacifiers for babies should be none.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2024
Essex Police said pacifiers were taken from babies in Harlow on four occasions between 10 February and 7 August.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023
They held clocks, baby pacifiers, napkins and other cleaning equipment, as well as chains they said symbolized the challenges that domestic servants face in Indonesia.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Babies "R" Us was the go-to destination for parents looking for cribs, pacifiers and diaper bags until stores were shut in June 2018.
From Reuters ● Jan. 10, 2023
He said games as if he’d said pacifiers or tricycles.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
