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pacifier

[pas-uh-fahy-er] / ˈpæs əˌfaɪ ər /
NOUN
comforter
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NOUN
teething ring
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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

The software records data as an infant sucks on the pacifier and compares that data with information from other infants.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024

She called herself a "human pacifier" and reluctantly started co-sleeping before realizing she needed to make changes before going back to work.

From Salon ● May 12, 2023

Hearing Ma weeping and Pop wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier double-time and Ray holds my hand.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr


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