narcotic
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A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy that directly targets pain-processing areas in the brain while avoiding the addiction risks linked to narcotic drugs.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2026
The regular return of this device lends the album a vaguely narcotic quality, inducing unwanted drowsiness in the listener.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
The arc of history is a narcotic that robs us of human responsibility, in allowing us to believe in some mysterious mechanism that will make things come out right by a sort of magic.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
It sounds aligned with the adjectives I gave, but I’m unsure what narcotic means in this context.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
West Africans were chewing the caffeine-containing nuts of the latter as a narcotic, long before the Coca-Cola Company enticed first Americans and then the world to drink a beverage originally laced with its extracts.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Shibiri, who oversaw anti-gang, narcotics, illegal mining investigations among others in his role, said the money was for repairs to his son's car.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The wall is intended to curb illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking from Mexico, which have declined, according to official indicators.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
In his new job, he controlled criminal investigations, crime-scene investigations, internal affairs, the narcotics team and drug-analysis units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
The scale of illegal waste activity in England saw it once dubbed the "new narcotics" by former Environment Agency chief Sir James Bevan.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
I had been around long enough either to know or to spot instinctively most regular detectives and cops, though not the narcotics people.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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