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palliatives

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plural of palliative

as in sedatives

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Intelligence on the strike targets does not need to positively identify people on the boat or locate narcotics aboard, Kaine said, based on his reading of the criteria.

— Laura Romero, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Horsch, 44, was taken into custody at the beginning of the investigation in June on weapons and narcotics charges, before federal prosecutors took over the case; Horsch will have a September court date Fox29 reports.

— Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

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Instead of creams and balms that temporarily relieve the itch, this inconspicuous tool uses suction to directly remove insect venom, stingers, and saliva from the bite site.

— Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2026
Skin tints, blurring balms, four kinds of lip liner—amid an increasing bevy of products to choose between, choice paralysis begs the question of what a makeup routine actually requires.

— Valeriya Chupinina, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026

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The center runs workshops on how to build air purifiers, how to measure heat and temperature in homes, and teaches solutions for treating those problems.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
For many of its leading figures, from the Impressionists in the 1870s to conceptual artists a century later, this also meant proposing new and better solutions to the problem of how to be and how to live together.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

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