tranquilize
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Zadeh said it was shortly before 1 p.m. when deputies were called to assist after a fish and game warden tried to tranquilize the big cat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Fire and rescue officials used a ladder truck to get close to and tranquilize the bear.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
This let police, along with a veterinarian from the National Zoo and animal welfare activists from the Humane Rescue Alliance, tranquilize the bear at 10:15 a.m.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
The sheep, out of its element and skittish from the crashing waves, ruined the first day of the session, so a veterinarian was called in to tranquilize the animal for day two.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
All she had done today was tranquilize a few dogs.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Wildlife officials said biologists responded to the location and conducted an assessment of the mountain lion after it was tranquilized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The yearlings were tranquilized and will be released elsewhere if rabies is not detected in the sow, Game Commission spokesperson Travis Lau said in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The Japanese macaque, who some had nicknamed “Kingussie Kong,” was caught and tranquilized Thursday morning, after a member of public called a hotline to report it was eating from a bird feeder in their garden.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
FWC personnel were called to assist, and they safely tranquilized and captured the panther, according to WBBH-TV.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
He sleeps about as heavily as a tranquilized elephant.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. famously referred to the "tranquilizing drug of gradualism" to highlight the urgency of seeing continuity between histories of racial injustice and contemporary inequalities.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023
Grubert says the aim is to catch the animal, if necessary by tranquilizing it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
The same doesn’t apply to reading, but there is a category of book known to combine tranquilizing and entertaining properties.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
There, the researchers count bears, tranquilizing and tagging some to collect data about their health.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2022
When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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