sedate
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Patterson's trial last year drew podcasters, film crews and true crime fans to a courthouse in the rural town of Morwell, a sedate hamlet in Victoria better known for its prize-winning roses.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The game had started in sedate fashion, with Arnautovic's goal just before the half-hour mark the first shot on target.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Nursing homes have a powerful incentive to sedate residents, and comparatively few people are watching.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
Amateur racers, pimped-out coupes, woodies and ragtops, sedate sedans and souped-up hot rods, all shared the brand-new, wide-open freeways and boulevards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
It was a heavy belt made of layers of brown leather with a sedate leather-covered buckle.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s or mild cognitive impairment will quickly find that lecanemab is not a neurological medication that sedates, stimulates or dampens pain.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 27, 2023
To determine if a sturgeon is female, a worker first sedates the fish in a trough with a small electric current.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2018
It sedates the dog but is not an anti-anxiety medication.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2016
Later, as the news spreads with the virus and terror propels the population into rabid belligerence, the movie sedates its pulse, softens its focus and threatens to become a straightfaced Zombieland.
From Time ● Sep. 4, 2011
A careful, perhaps too conventional interpretation of a play that sheds less light on its subject than it does on the mind of Playwright Bernard Shaw, who sometimes dates but never sedates.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Others worry about the invasiveness of a colonoscopy and undergoing anesthesia or are too sick with a chronic disease to be sedated.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
In October, a Tijuana man was indicted after officers found two emaciated and potentially sedated orange-fronted parakeets stuffed in his underwear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
Authorities later posted photos of a sedated Neukgu being attended to in a medical facility.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
They are also highly sensitive to anaesthesia and so cannot be kept sedated for long, a result of their unique build -- "the heart to the brain is quite long," Mijele explained.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
Animals were sedated, cages were loaded and secured, feed was stored, bunks were assigned, lines were tossed, and whistles were blown.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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And while sedating antihistamines like diphenhydramine might help you sleep at night, they don't treat the cough itself.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
In the operating room, before they began sedating me, I heard the surgeon enter the room, take a look at the pacemaker, and pronounce that it was the wrong model.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
"We know that nursing homes with lower staffing levels use more antipsychotics. These medications may be compensating for understaffing by sedating residents instead of having adequate staff to support their needs," said Travers.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Several bills in Congress aim to tighten use of xylazine without limiting its legitimate use in sedating horses, sheep and other animals.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
What is then given should have the power of sedating the nervous fluids, while it disseminates through the viscera the elements of nutrition.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
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