quieting

Example Sentences

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"This offers a tangible path toward creating a medication that has a similar quieting effect as meditation."

From Science Daily • Jan. 2, 2026

And yet it is precisely a lack of hyperbole or hysteria—a quieting control, one might say—that makes it so moving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

They beat them in the first week of the season, quieting the noise around Domantas Sabonis’ dominance against Anthony Davis.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

Throughout his campaign, Cox told me, Zuckerman had downplayed his anti-immigration views, and he had succeeded in quieting his opponents.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

I’m on my feet before I’m fully awake, quieting Viola and a groggy Manchee barking his complaints.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness