as in soothing
tending to cause sleep
her eyes soon grew heavy from the hypnotic rhythm of the train's wheels
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Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
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Enchanting and opulent, Vera Bradley’s Wicked collaboration is split up into the rosy Glinda Collection and hypnotic Elphaba Collection.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
The festival, which started in 1976, is bringing wacky comedy shows, unique music performances, daring jousts, acrobatics, hypnotics and even big cats to 10 stages around the 30-acre festival grounds, located 30 minutes south of Denver in Larkspur.
—Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Know, 18 June 2019
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Adjective
This week, Kylie Minogue loses herself on the dancefloor, a hypnotic track from the new Bon Iver EP, and a searing bonus cut from the deluxe edition of Gracie Abrams The Secret of Us.
—Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
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Enchanting and opulent, Vera Bradley’s Wicked collaboration is split up into the rosy Glinda Collection and hypnotic Elphaba Collection.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Unlike telepaths, who can read minds, hypnotics have the power to control them, reshaping a person’s reality and redirecting their impulses.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
The festival, which started in 1976, is bringing wacky comedy shows, unique music performances, daring jousts, acrobatics, hypnotics and even big cats to 10 stages around the 30-acre festival grounds, located 30 minutes south of Denver in Larkspur.
—Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Know, 18 June 2019
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It’s infused with Korean centella asiatica, renowned for its powerful soothing properties.Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
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Hatch employees worked alongside KFC's food innovation team to record the soothing sounds of frying KFC's new Original Recipe Tenders.Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2024
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The category also includes certain stimulants, sedatives and opioids.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
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In more than 15 of those cases, police requested or suggested that emergency medical workers inject sedatives, such as ketamine or midazolam, to temporarily immobilize someone for transport.John Seewer and Reese Dunklin, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2024
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The tranquilizer is not to punish the people of Snowpiercer but is located in the back car, positioned perfectly for an ambush when Big Alice arrives.Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
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This may include antipsychotics (which block dopamine receptors in the brain), antidepressants, and tranquilizers (drugs that reduce anxiety, fear, and tension).13 Medication alone does not usually resolve symptoms.Sherri Gordon, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
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Legend has it that Apollo prevented his muse priestess from brewing, imbibing or smoking laurel leaves, which have a mild narcotic property.Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Fleming was also being charged on suspicion of dangerous drug possession or use, false report to law enforcement, drug paraphernalia possession or use, and narcotic drug possession or use, according to jail records.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
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Une Chambre à Soi in Château La Coste’s Richard Rogers gallery is inspired by Virginia Woolfe’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own and features more than fifteen artists visualising a soporific journey from sunset to sunrise.Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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But now there's something distinctly soporific about it all, and certainly not the kind of writing Capote himself would have wanted associated with his name.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
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In a video posted to YouTube Monday (Nov. 4), the producer tells this story alongside Jordan Hamilton, the CEO of Choice House, the Colorado addiction and mental health treatment center for men where Illenium (born Nick Miller) got sober more than a decade ago after an opiate addiction.Katie Bain, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Well, as Makena's investigation shows, for over a decade, he's been posting on Reddit about his use of a genuinely staggering range of drugs, including cocaine, various opiate derivatives, MDMA.Leah Feiger, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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The movie itself is overwhelmingly standard — just that title alone makes one drowsy — and the only actor showing any real energy here is Pine, who would never end up playing the role again anyway.Will Leitch, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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Engaging in risky driving behaviors such as speeding, texting, driving while drowsy or distracted, or driving under the influence of cannabis or alcohol significantly increases the risk of a collision.Ed Garsten, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Returning to the somnolent complacency of years past is not an option.Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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Neuroscientists have long had an explanation for our somnolent twitches.Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
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“Hypnotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypnotic. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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