tranquilize

Zadeh said it was shortly before 1 p.m. when deputies were called to assist after a fish and game warden tried to tranquilize the big cat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

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

The sheep, out of its element and skittish from the crashing waves, ruined the first day of the session, so a veterinarian was called in to tranquilize the animal for day two.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

Gresham Mandy, who leads the community police group, said the first priority was to tranquilize the animal with a dart and bring it back safely.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

All she had done today was tranquilize a few dogs.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

That lion was also successfully tranquilized without any injuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

The animal was tranquilized again, then moved to a bear trap that had been placed on a trailer, the news outlet reported.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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

As for my mother, she was tranquilized, and remembers only that the pressure in her eyes made Father Mike’s face appear oddly elongated, like a priest in a painting by El Greco.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Comprised of keratin — the substance in human fingernails — rhino horn can grow back after it is trimmed, an operation that entails tranquilizing the animal.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021

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