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Recent Examples of depressant
The drink is known for its mild euphoria and depressant effects.
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Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depressant
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The state appears to now use two doses of the sedative pentobarbital, with the attorneys saying the inmates drown in a rush of fluid into their lungs but are paralyzed and cannot react.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Nitrous oxide is commonly used as an inhaled sedative tool in medical procedures, the Cleveland Clinic explains.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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Ashwagandha comes with natural relaxant properties to calm down your mind and recharge your brain.—
Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
29 Apr. 2023
Adjective
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Apparently, the chair was missing its appendix, a lever manufactured in Hungary roughly the same shape and size as sticks of an opiate called Thebaine.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2025
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The threat from fentanyl is not a foreign nation, but someone in a basement lab who can prompt AI properly to generate the synthetic opiate.—
Ibrahim Al-Marashi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Oct. 2025
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That November, Chelsea was arrested for a third time on similar felony counts — possession of methamphetamine, bail jumping and possession of narcotic drugs — and appeared in court in Wisconsin on March 31 related to the charges.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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The bombers could be used to knock out narcotic production and distribution facilities.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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With her powerful voice and hypnotic interpretative quality, Peluso seems tailor-made for this.—
Sigal Ratner-Arias,
Billboard,
4 Nov. 2025
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His presence is fresh, empathetic, often hypnotic, and never overacted.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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The YouTube search results have warped into an apparent AI breeding ground, crammed with hourlong mixes full of soporific dreck.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
2 July 2025
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Prince Valiant Much of Spaceballs' plot kicks off when Daphne Zuniga's Princess Vespa runs away from her soporific betrothed, Prince Valium (the mighty Jim J. Bullock), at the altar.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
14 June 2025
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“Depressant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depressant. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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