sedate
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Nursing homes have a powerful incentive to sedate residents, and comparatively few people are watching.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
He added that some surveys suggest that sedate hiring has made job hunting especially frustrating for those out of work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
At the bank's annual general meeting that year, normally sedate elderly shareholders hissed and booed.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
At the recent Fish and Game Commission meeting, Samantha Murray, commission vice president, described him as having a “steady, calm, like, sedate presence,” and hailed his long institutional knowledge.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
The house—for the most part designed by Mr. Clutter, who thereby proved himself a sensible and sedate, if not notably decorative, architect—had been built in 1948 for forty thousand dollars.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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