soporific
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Yasmina, by contrast, who grows up to be an economic consultant, exists in a world of chilly blue-gray conference rooms and soporific slide shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Monaco has become notorious in recent years for soporific races in which the leader controls the pace from the front in an attempt to secure the victory knowing that overtaking is almost impossible.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler’s mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Exposure to sunlight prevents the brain from producing melatonin and other natural soporifics.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 23, 2016
Many of the antihistamines, intended to relieve allergies, are also prescribed as soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It surely ought to work for those viewers lulled these many years by cinema soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kennedy unemotionally traced the misconceptions and the soporifics that lulled England during the prewar years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do not waste your time listening to meaningless ser- mons, but take real, genuine soporifics.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
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