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Recent Examples of security blanket
Pollack’s self-confidence is the ultimate security blanket for the Warriors.
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Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
This was a troubling time, and the Oscar villains offered a psychological security blanket.
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Nate Jones,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
However, gold and silver prices carry volatility of their own, especially when buyers enter the market at a high point, risking losses instead of providing a security blanket.
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Max Zahn,
ABC News,
26 Jan. 2026
This cozy shawl is my carry-on security blanket—soft, lightweight, and big enough to use on a plane when freezing.
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Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Dec. 2025
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Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
This was a troubling time, and the Oscar villains offered a psychological security blanket.
—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
However, gold and silver prices carry volatility of their own, especially when buyers enter the market at a high point, risking losses instead of providing a security blanket.
—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
26 Jan. 2026
This cozy shawl is my carry-on security blanket—soft, lightweight, and big enough to use on a plane when freezing.
—
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for security blanket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for security blanket
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The oldest defendant, 70-year-old Glenn Middleton, is charged with firearm and narcotics offenses and accused of storing items used in the conspiracy.
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The seizures added up to about 420 grams of cocaine, $2,291 in cash, a rifle, four pistols, various magazines and ammunition, and digital scales and packaging materials believed to be used in narcotics distribution, the sheriff's office said.
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In 2020, O'Neal had a near-fatal stroke after overdosing on morphine, opiates and pain medication.
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Are laughter and lightness merely opiates, or tools of the revolution, or both, or neither?
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But the solution caused Peñaloza Cabrera to suffer lidocaine toxicity, a condition that occurs when excessive amounts of the anesthetic enter the bloodstream, causing seizures, irregular heart rhythm, respiratory failure and — as in the victim’s case — cardiac arrest.
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Perry, who had long struggled with addiction and wrote about it in a memoir, illegally obtained the powerful dissociative anesthetic from at least two sources.
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In addition, a sedative such as diazepam (Valium) is often prescribed to reduce anxiety.
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The woman did a Google image search and concluded that the drug was stronger — Ambien, a prescription sedative, reads the complaint.
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“Security blanket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/security%20blanket. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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