relaxant

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Recent Examples of relaxant Ashwagandha comes with natural relaxant properties to calm down your mind and recharge your brain. Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023 Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2]. Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2014 See All Example Sentences for relaxant
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Adjective
  • Saltz: Lorazepam is in the class of medications called benzodiazepines, which is a depressant, and also sometimes referred to as a sedative hypnotic medication.
    Ben Tinker, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
  • In any case, chamomile flowers—which look like adorable, tiny daisies—contain flavonoids, terpenoids, and coumarins which certainly have mildly sedative, anti-inflammatory, and antispasmodic properties.
    Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • She is charged with possession of cocaine, possession of a narcotic drug, unlawful possession of a syringe, all Level 6 felonies, plus one misdemeanor.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • The near-constant use of psychedelic stimulants, including MDMA and ecstasy, pushed her into a cycle of narcotic dependence.
    Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ventura readily admitted to a serious opiate addiction and feeling jealousy, especially early on, over Combs’ relationships with other women, including the mother of three his children, Kim Porter.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
  • Thousands of inmates wrongly tested positive for opiate use inside California state prisons last year because of a laboratory mistake, and civil rights attorneys now worry many of them could be denied parole and a chance at freedom because of it.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Shot in the Colombian desert, this new film is nothing short of hypnotic.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 May 2025
  • In the room with us in Valencia, the dolls eyes’ are hypnotic, carrying a trace of malevolence.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025

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“Relaxant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relaxant. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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