tranquilizing

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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

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