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somniferous

[som-nif-er-uhs, suhm-] / sɒmˈnɪf ər əs, səm- /


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Everyone was back in the Dolby Theatre, a welcome return after last year’s somniferous experiment from Steven Soderbergh, which was held in Los Angeles’s Union Station.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022

Still, it’s a somniferous situation for the photographers, who camp out in their cars for hours at a time for a few seconds of activity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2019

Perhaps, however, someone with practice in writing sermons will argue that the sermon without instances is as somniferous as the book-review with the same want.

From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd

It would be a great mistake to think that we should banish from our tables all somniferous articles.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

This somniferous influence, which is to some extent exercised by local electrization, is here distinguished by its far greater constancy as well as by its greater degree of perfection.

From The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig


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