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This week's Sunday cover story focuses on an old drug made new: nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, and how its abuse as an inhalant is affecting Kentucky families.
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Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
Amy Louise Leonard, 20, a makeup artist from Greater Manchester in England, lost the ability to walk for three weeks after inhaling a balloon filled with nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Is this moving-picture love letter overly sentimental, sloppy to a fault, and slightly more affectionate toward its posthumous subject than a basket of puppies high on laughing gas?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
The child had come to the practice a few months prior, at 3 years old, and Davis had attempted to use nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, to perform the procedure.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
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Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
Amy Louise Leonard, 20, a makeup artist from Greater Manchester in England, lost the ability to walk for three weeks after inhaling a balloon filled with nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Is this moving-picture love letter overly sentimental, sloppy to a fault, and slightly more affectionate toward its posthumous subject than a basket of puppies high on laughing gas?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
The child had come to the practice a few months prior, at 3 years old, and Davis had attempted to use nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, to perform the procedure.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for laughing gas
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“Laughing gas.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laughing%20gas. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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