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as in security blanket
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as in negotiator
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Recent Examples of pacifier
Colorado shared an image on social media of a young Ethan Holliday wielding a purple bat at Coors Field while sucking on a pacifier.
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Charles Odum, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Items like pacifiers and teething rings also fit well and come out fully sanitized.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 8 July 2025
On the left, 23-month-old Riot Rose sucks on a pacifier and stares apathetically at his mom before hiding behind the shade canopy of his carseat, seemingly having pulled it over himself to avoid his mom’s camera lens.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 July 2025
This kid's been sucking on a pacifier for over 35 years.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 13 June 2025
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Charles Odum, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Items like pacifiers and teething rings also fit well and come out fully sanitized.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 8 July 2025
On the left, 23-month-old Riot Rose sucks on a pacifier and stares apathetically at his mom before hiding behind the shade canopy of his carseat, seemingly having pulled it over himself to avoid his mom’s camera lens.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 July 2025
This kid's been sucking on a pacifier for over 35 years.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pacifier
Noun
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However, gold prices carry volatility of their own, especially when buyers enter the market at a high point, risking losses instead of a security blanket.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
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But Taylor could be Fields’ offensive security blanket in third down situations.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Arnold Sotelo is a Peruvian entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of International Media Group (IMG), and a digital expert and negotiator.—
Arnold Sotelo,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The group’s chief negotiator had lived in Doha for years.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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At higher doses, kratom can be used as a sedative and potentially cause psychosis.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Yet, unlike cortisol, oxytocin will have an effect on your body akin to that of a sedative.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Jacintha, a horseback rider, was familiar with ketamine as a horse tranquilizer but had never heard of it as a last-stop mental health treatment for treatment-resistant patients like Lucy, who was diagnosed with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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The program tests for various drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and other opioids, as well as xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that authorities have warned is increasingly being found mixed in with other drugs.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Mills and Stockey think the extraordinarily high temperatures reached in Tierney’s reconstructions could reflect subtle biases in some of the proxies that skew hot.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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But new evidence shows that boards frequently grant activists more influence in settlements than activists could achieve in a proxy contest.—
Kai Liekefett,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Most people do not understand how effective good palliative and hospice care is at identifying and treating all types of suffering.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
28 July 2025
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End-of-life patients in palliative or hospice care would also qualify for the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP), as the state’s medical cannabis program is known.—
A.J. Herrington,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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The recording was apparently not disclosed to defense attorney Barnett, who could have used it to discredit Neary’s testimony.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Trump’s attorneys on Thursday had submitted an emergency request to pause a lower-court ruling, which barred Cook’s firing from taking effect while her lawsuit against the president’s action continues.—
Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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One of the fundamental factors influencing the sustainability of this withdrawal rate is the manner in which retirement funds are invested.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Authorities say the act was premeditated and carried out in front of a crowd that included children, a factor that could carry serious sentencing implications.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Pacifier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacifier. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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