tranquilize

When a fish and game warden tried to tranquilize the big cat, the officer missed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

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

A biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was able to tranquilize the moose, but the animal wasn’t completely unconscious.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

All she had done today was tranquilize a few dogs.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

This week, we’ve got a non-RFK development in the charismatic spoiler candidate space, an Indiana congresswoman who loves to keep ’em guessing, and a heavily tranquilized Kraken being hauled off to the probation officer.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2023

“Nanuq here was tranquilized and spent a month in Polar Bear Jail before being released back into the wild,” George explained.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

In 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

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

Tender but emphatic, Kong’s effect is equal parts fearsome and tranquilizing; in this stage version, we come to see the kinship between Kong and Ann not as a study in opposites but in shared alienation.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2018

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