soporific
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Even if the museum had red eyes on tap it wouldn’t have made a difference when it comes to this soporific presentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The change has been introduced after a soporific race in 2024 that followed years of growing concerns about the tendency towards uneventful grands prix on the historic streets on the Cote d'Azur.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
Musty retreads of Ibsen and Chekhov, besides being counter to the maverick spirit of their play, can be soporific endurance tests.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
It’s so effective a soporific that most nights I struggle to read for more than 10 minutes, which is both satisfying and maddening.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
In the soporific heat of those months Blanca, protected by the creature that was growing inside her, forgot about the magnitude of her disgrace.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Exposure to sunlight prevents the brain from producing melatonin and other natural soporifics.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 23, 2016
It surely ought to work for those viewers lulled these many years by cinema soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of the antihistamines, intended to relieve allergies, are also prescribed as soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
At least these were incendiary devices; elsewhere one found soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
In certain cases they are the first of all soporifics.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Vocabulary lists containing soporific
Jane Eyre
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