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Like many other women she's since encountered, Schwartz posted online to share her traumatic experience, asking why women’s pain has been normalized in gynecological procedures to the extent that no anesthetic or laughing gas is offered for relief.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
Doe is the second former staffer to raise concern about West’s alleged nitrous oxide use, after his former chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos claimed that celebrity dentist Thomas P. Connelly was hooking West up with copious amounts of laughing gas for recreational use.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
Nitrous oxide is a colorless and odorless gas — also known as laughing gas, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
—Jonathan Limehouse, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2024
Aside from being a waste of time (and in some cases, extra money), laughing gas also comes with serious safety risks to consider.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 9 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
1818, in the meaning defined above
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“Laughing gas.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laughing%20gas. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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