tranquilize

When a fish and game warden tried to tranquilize the big cat, the officer missed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

Officials from the town of Kleinmachnow said their goal was to tranquilize and capture the animal, rather than kill it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

Human Rescue Alliance staffers were able to tranquilize the approximately 200- pound animal and load it into a huge metal crate.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

This let police, along with a veterinarian from the National Zoo and animal welfare activists from the Humane Rescue Alliance, tranquilize the bear at 10:15 a.m.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

All she had done today was tranquilize a few dogs.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Wildlife officials successfully tranquilized a mountain lion that was spotted roaming in a front yard in Santa Monica, following several tense hours where residents were warned to stay indoors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Disaster nearly struck early in the relocation effort, when a tranquilized rhino stumbled into a creek.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

The Japanese macaque, who some had nicknamed “Kingussie Kong,” was caught and tranquilized Thursday morning, after a member of public called a hotline to report it was eating from a bird feeder in their garden.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

FWC personnel were called to assist, and they safely tranquilized and captured the panther, according to WBBH-TV.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

He sleeps about as heavily as a tranquilized elephant.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. famously referred to the "tranquilizing drug of gradualism" to highlight the urgency of seeing continuity between histories of racial injustice and contemporary inequalities.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023

The same doesn’t apply to reading, but there is a category of book known to combine tranquilizing and entertaining properties.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022

There, the researchers count bears, tranquilizing and tagging some to collect data about their health.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2022

Tender but emphatic, Kong’s effect is equal parts fearsome and tranquilizing; in this stage version, we come to see the kinship between Kong and Ann not as a study in opposites but in shared alienation.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2018

When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson