sedate
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That was followed by the more sedate Easter Lily EP in April; with Carnaval de Luz rounding off the story.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
Oil and gas prices have been so erratic lately that the time-honored roller-coaster metaphor now looks sedate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Nursing homes have a powerful incentive to sedate residents, and comparatively few people are watching.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
It was both bohemian and conventional, lively and sedate.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
At his local bar, for example, an imitation Irish pub, the bartender sedates the customers by showing them sumo wrestling highlights.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2013
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 a recent study, researchers placed electrodes across the scalps of sedated patients, capturing their brain-wave data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
A mountain lion spotted in an Escondido neighborhood was tranquilized, sedated and then released into the wild, according to wildlife officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Mishka the Amur tiger was sedated in her habitat and transported to the scanner, where vets were looking for any bone and spinal changes.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
He limped for weeks, and was forbidden from seeing Brother Cyrus, who’d grown so agitated by his visit that he’d had to be sedated.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
The process of sedating and capturing a rhino is complex and risky.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 11, 2023
It was a dramatic rescue that involved sedating the children to get them out - and few thought it would succeed.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2022
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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