antianxiety

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antianxiety
Adjective
  • In 2024, Kennedy speculated that antidepressant use could explain the rise of school shootings, despite a lack of scientific evidence to support such claims.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The new study investigated the association between a polygenic score (PGS) and depression outcomes, including severity, trajectories of depression and antidepressant medication use.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The draft, titled Development of Non-Opioid Analgesics for Chronic Pain, outlines steps to creating and seeking alternative chronic pain treatments amid the opioid epidemic, specifically the development of non-opioid analgesic products.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • An analgesic medication that works in the brain to reduce mild to moderate pain by increasing the body’s pain threshold and changing the way the body senses pain.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Schultz also slow-walked the trial use of the fast-acting anesthetic ketamine by paramedics, who were able to administer only four doses in six months under his stewardship.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton saw the case as the perfect opportunity to test his anesthetic breathing apparatus in the hospital’s amphitheater.
    RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Antianxiety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antianxiety. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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